Your Highness, Mr. Russian Tsarevits, Mr. Putin.
Life has been nice since the
1990s. For all of us: the Chinese, the Europeans, the Americans, the Russians.
The world opened up, small Russian peripheral countries like Estonia became
independent and began to develop tremendously. We were allowed to travel freely
from west to east and from east to west. We got to enjoy the highest quality
ballet in the world and great concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Muscovites
and St. Petersburgers were happy to go shopping in Helsinki, visited to Paris,
Berlin and London, wealth increased. Trade, one of the basic means of species
conservation, was liberated. Trade was global, Russia produced gas, sold it
widely to Europe, and bought Western commodities.
The West even began to like Russia, which began to be considered a valuable, even equal friend.
You said on
Victory Day that the fight against Ukraine is justified because anti-Russian
sentiment has increased. Yes, it is, but only now. The propagandistic lie fed
to the people is that this would have been the case before this brutal attack.
Now the opposition to Russia is increasing by the force of the tsunami, as you
have seen. Unfortunately, you caused it yourself.
We have assumed that at last man
would have evolved to respect a little more of his fellow species and to work
together. Disappointment has turned into dismay.
The time of the tsars was not
free for a penniless people, but the few who could afford were allowed to move
and live freely. The tsars were despots, but still did not prevent the people
move — unfortunately, the people meant mostly only the aristodracy and welthy.
Under communism, the people could not move, there was no money and no freedom
to leave, because if they were allowed, there would be no certainty of return.
Indeed, some dared to stay, the few great artists who were able to go to Europe
at some point. The world would have received an ordinary traveler, but the
Soviet citizen did not receive permission from his own administration. We
western people had condescending attitude,
we went to the Soviet Union by trading tights and jeans, the people
bought eagerly that western vanity. When communism withered away, Russia was
reborn, the Russian was allowed to be free, and he was received in the West
with open arms without doubt. Thirty years it took.
Now a Russian citizen is not
welcome in any country. Because of their Russianness and the sanctions. No one
would have wanted to impose this punishment, but since there is no desire to
respond to the attack with direct destructive force that kills people and all
living things, it has been necessary to show the unjust madness of this
operation by other means. One of the inherent qualities of man is that it is
cheap to knock out weaker. Who does that? Answer: dictators do. In psychology,
the answer would probably be that narcissists do.
You, dear Mr. Putin respect
veterans and are appealing to them now. Despite the heavy experiences of the
veterans in World War II, they forgave and, even felt the brotherhood of fate.
We, the post-war generation, learned to love Russia’s great art treasure, which
we were free to admire, visit, and vice versa. Overall, life felt happy. We
believed and liked our neighbours. Even you, Mr Putin, were believed and
trusted in the West.
Wouldn’t it have been more fun to
trade, to compete in sports, to exchange the pleasures of culture, to travel
freely as it was possible to do in thirty
years? You tell your people that you are on a crusade to destroy
Nazism. And isn't that crusade just Nazism? After all, the goal is a
nationalist conquest, Russia's world power.
Does the thinking Russian believe
in nationalist propaganda? Many who are able to think for themselves do not
believe, but they have been silenced.
I hope that thirty years of
freedom and joy will be restored, and that neither the living nor the inanimate
world will be destroyed, but that we will be able to focus fully on preventing
climate change and rescuing our descendant.
Mr. Putin, I would like to have a
happier future also for your descendants as well.
