“苏联是一个巨大的食人魔的尸体，虽然死了，但从未被埋葬。他只是躺在那里，在俄罗
斯，腐烂并散发出腐烂的气味。你无法躲避它。好比说，你带着鲜花和蛋糕去你女朋友漂
亮的公寓，虽然窗户关着，但你仍然可以闻到那种难闻的苏维埃气味。”这是10 年前弗
拉基米尔·索罗金接受采访内容的引述。
译注: 弗拉基米尔·索罗金是俄罗斯当代最杰出的后现代主义文学家之一
现在俄罗斯把这具尸体当成了装束，看起来像一个由旧帝国、苏联意识形态和腐败构成的
丑陋、臭臭、有毒的科学怪人。
当前的冲突不是土地和资源问题。这也不是语言和文化的问题。这是一场独裁与民主、过
去与未来、恐惧与自由的冲突。
“这完全取决于一个人，他的心情定义了这一切。他坐在克里姆林宫，与现实失去了所有
联系”，我每天都听到这些话，像咒语一样重复。
问题是，很多人，甚至是俄罗斯的创意阶层，对这种严格的垂直帝国体系也是OK的。沙皇
看起来很酷、很强壮，而且“克里米亚是我们的”。沙皇是个能言善辩的人，也会开玩笑
。 “炸毁基辅或华盛顿”的点子看起来很有吸引力——因为侵略和帝国感觉起来很性感
。有这种想法的人占大多数！
译注: 创意阶层不是众多工人中的一个阶层，而是一个可以为国家带来新的经济增长的群
体。
俄罗斯昨天对LPR和DPR的“承认”不是普京一个人签署的，而是由数千万俄罗斯公民签署
的。
不同意的人保持沉默。这是一项必要的现代技能——生活在一个侵略者的独裁国家，表现
得这一切跟你或你的家人没有关系。
但是“左转是餐厅——右转是监狱”（我在最近逃离该国的一位才华横溢的俄罗斯摄影师
的帖子中看到的短语）意味着当你住在警察国家时，被逮捕只是时间问题。
那些不沉默的人被弹出来——就像青春痘一样。他们身陷囹圄或被迫离开。
我向那些站出来抗议的俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的人致以崇高的敬意。谁试图说出真相，并面临
法庭，监狱，迫害并被迫逃离。你们是真正的英雄。而我希望将来会有更多。
自由是一种选择，我们每个人都为自己做出选择，与地理、舒适度、收入和环境无关。
所有这些关于1989年致命的历史问题，回忆和谈论都是KGB的宣传废话。
俄罗斯无法意识到、接受和相信在乌克兰的我们实际上与他们是非常不同的。他们的
DNA 中印有沙皇和恐惧。我们拥有自由。
乌克兰已经证明自己是一个国家和民族。我们已有 1500 年的历史，但我们是一家初创公
司。我们面前有着不可思议的未来。我们在每一次俄罗斯的威胁中变得更强大，向着我们
的独立迈出的每一步。
您不能在受孕 30 年后进行堕胎。这将被称为谋杀。因为孩子已经长大了，会和你吵架。
能回头的那一站已经过去了。
自由是我们在 1991 年、2004 年、2014 年在乌克兰做出的选择。我们每天都在做这个选
择。一旦你尝试自由地生活，你就无法以其他方式生活。
原文:
For my English speaking friends. Please share.
“USSR is a corpse of a giant ogre, who, though dead, was never buried. He’s
just lying there, in Russia, rotting and giving off a putrid odor. You can’t
hide from it. Say, you go to your girlfriend’s nice apartment, carrying
flowers and cake, and, though the windows are closed, you can still That ugly
soviet smell”. This is a rough quote from Vladimir Sorokin’s interview from
10 years ago.
Now Russia has put on this corpse as a costume, looking like an ugly, stinky,
toxic Frankenstein made of an old empire, Soviet ideology and corruption.
The current conflict is not a matter of land and resources. It’s also not a
matter of language and cultury. It’s a conflict of dictatorship and
democracy, of past and future, of fear and freedom.
“It’s all up to one person, his mood defines it all. He is sitting in the
Kremlin, having lost all ties with reality”, I hear these words every day,
repeated like a mantra.
The problem is that a lot of people, even among the Russian creative class,
are totally OK with this strict vertical imperial system. The Tsar seems
cool, strong, and “Crimea is ours”. The tsar is a smooth talker and he can
crack a joke. The idea of “blowing the fuck up Kyiv or Washington” looks
appealing – because aggression and empire is feels sexy. People who think
this way make up the majority!
Russia’s “recognition” of LPR and DPR yesterday wasn’t signed by Putin
alone – it was signed by tens of millions of Russian citizens.
Those who don’t agree are silent. It’s a necessary modern skill – to live
in an authoritarian aggressor state and act like you, or your family, have
nothing to do with it.
But “a restaurant to the left – and arrest to the right” (the phrase I saw
in a post by a talented Russian photographer who fled the country recently)
means that when you live in a police state, it’s only a matter of time when
it’s you who gets arrested.
Those people who are not silent get popped – like pimples. They go behind
bars or are forced to leave.
I pay enormous respect to those from Russia and Belarus who came out to
protest. Who tried to speak out and tell the truth, and faced courts,
prisons, persecution and were forced to flee. You are true heroes. And I hope
there are more of you in the future.
Being free is a choice, and we make that choice, each of us for himself, with
no connection to geography, comfort, income and circumstance.
All these historical recollections and talks about fatal flaws of 1989 are a
bunch of KGB propaganda crap.
Russia cannot realize, accept and believe that we in Ukraine are, in fact,
very different. They have tsars and fear imprinted into their DNA. We have
freedom in ours.
Ukraine has already justified itself as a state and a nation. We are 1500
years old, but we are a startup. We have an incredible future ahead of us.
And we get stronger with every threat, with every step Russia takes towards
our independence.
You can’t perform an abortion 30 years after the conception. It would be
called a murder. Because the child has grown up and will fight you. The point
of no return was passed.
Freedom is a choice we made in Ukraine in 1991, in 2004, in 2014. We make
this choice daily. Once you try living free, you can’t live any other way.