Olexander Scherba

@olexscherba.bsky.social

Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador, author

Volodymyr Mykolayenko, former mayor of Kherson who refused to be exchanged in favour of other 🇺🇦 PoW and who was released only now, 3 years later, tells his story. How he was beaten “almost daily, except on Easter”. And that’s all you need to know about Russia’s “Christianity”.

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An illustration to put russian smugness in perspective. Somewhere around 2018, during my time as 🇺🇦ambassador in Austria, I was informed of contacts between Catholic Church & 🇷🇺 Orthodoxy. Catholics were doing the Christian thing: reaching out a friendly hand, trying to smooth out existing problems. ⬇️

During the Holocaust, there were those who ratted the Jews out, those who saved them - and those who saved them only as long as the Jews paid. And then they ratted them out. They probably said things like “Why prolong the inevitable?” And “What is your endgame, anyways?”