Kharkiv is beautiful even with scars or everything you need to know about UNESCO

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I browsed the world media on Kharkiv a little – and only gritted my teeth… I remind you that as of 02/24/2022, Kharkiv’s Svobody Square with the silhouette of Derzhprom (in this very wording) was in the queue for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List (in the so-called Preliminary List). And for more than 2.5 years of almost daily bombing of Kharkiv, this queue has not moved – not even a little, writes Ukraine’s contemporary writer Oksana Zabuzhko.

The other truth is (please don’t laugh!) that this sight was included (last year) in the List of objects of enhanced protection. I don’t know what this “enhanced protection” was supposed to be – maybe they enlarged the blue shield emblem on the maps (I’m not kidding, this is verbatim the recommendation UNESCO gave to Lviv residents in late February 2022, when they panicked and called Paris asking how to protect their World Heritage from russian missiles: they suggested to take care of the blue shields so that they are clearly visible – if the russians see them, they won’t bomb you…).

This is, in fact, everything you need to know about UNESCO. (And about all other international organizations, for that matter: Yuri Bezmenov was right – only one generation, according to Ortega [José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist – UT] – 30 years, counting from 1989, it took the GB [Soviet State Security – UT] to systematically, at the institutional level, corrupt the West, which after the World War II, we should give it its due, didn’t really resist – and you know, screamed like Winston Smith in “1984”: “Give them Julia!” – and that was long before he was taken himself for torture: the kremlin was satisfied.

As one of their Julius Streichers said, “just raise an eyebrow”, and they gladly gave him “Julia after Julia” – Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Armenia and Georgia, Ukraine… – oh, wait a second, why doesn’t it work with Ukraine? The fact is that we needed exactly these 30 years to grow up to the ability to resist.

And screw you, dogheads, you will not get Kharkiv. You won’t hold the Caucasus for long – you are just starting to be shaken from all sides, you haven’t even begun to lose territories where you are weak: like 35 years ago, like 110 years ago, – only this time the West will no longer hold you intact: having made it institutionally impotent, you have also deprived yourself of its support, which you have taken for granted until now, because the rotten can’t save anybody – this time there will be no “Paris”, there will be no “Yalta”. Carthago delenda est.)

And Kharkiv is beautiful – even with scars.

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