Thoughts on Russian Army and Ukrainian Culture
3 min readApr 8, 2022
Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko once wrote:
“Cruel Russians rob and pillage
What their eyes can notice.”
Taras Shevchenko wrote about something very mundane, the cruelty of the empire, the place where nothing really belonged to anyone, atrocities were a norm, and where the tsar could take anything at any…