Today we had another blackout, and I went to the city centre to make some things done. I’ve been with my friend, and he offered to take a look at the wrecked tanks. I didn’t know they have them there.
In the city centre, there were military people, they showed their arsenal. The most popular ones were javelines and NLAWs from the US and the UK (and Sweden) respectively.
That’s me with the javelin. It’s light, without the explosives it’s just 3 kgs. With the explosives, it’s about 20 kgs.
At the rynok square, there are wrecked tanks and similar machines. I liked the view very much, because when I was young, during my school time, we visit various WWII museums and they were shit.
The Soviet propaganda machine named the war as the ‘great motherland war’ or various other names to hide the fact that actually soviets were partners with the nazi. For a soviet citizen there was no war from 1939 to 1941, and ‘all of the sudden’ the nazi attacked them. Since I was a kid, living in Belarus and sometimes russia, I didn’t know history well to understand that I’m just lied to. Although, what helped me tremendously is some critical thinking skills, plus the understanding that they (the grown-ups) are just lying hyporcrites. Nobody ever told me it’s all crap, including my mom. They did tell me I had to, idk how to name it, I had to feel this pretnetious fake glory. I despised these museum with all my heart, I hated them and all these people, including the soldiers, a bio-trash I would always call them.
These machines were different, very different. They were real. Not the shiny piece of metal scrap, not pretentious and fake. The real tank from the real fight. I could clearly imagine ruzzian soldiers being burnt inside these machines.
Our tanks were from Bucha.
I hope these machines would make it to the real museums, where the next generations of Ukrainians and tourists too would observe these wrecked tech. And learn what the war was.
