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“I fully support our President’s decisions!” One thing was clear: what people felt was quite indirectly connected to what they told us. These questions usually disturbed people, we saw troubled face after troubled face. In order to get people off script, we’d ask what exactly they’d felt at various specific moments: when they learned about the start of the “special operation,” when they talked about it with their loved ones, or right at the moment of the conversation that we were having. Like the majority of the people we talked to, the men at the soccer field were against war in general, but very much in favor of this particular war, and didn’t see any contradiction in this. People recited the propaganda spiels from state television verbatim, and then explained that they were only expressing their purely subjective opinions. We ended up hearing that phrase many times. Meduza spoke to the civilians who still live there.
The invasion of such a big country that’s spat in the face of the whole entire world. “Everything had been planned and seen to ahead of time. “Judging by what I’ve seen on TV, they’re extremely happy about it,” the second man said. “And how do you think they feel about our invasion?” “Do you think that the people in Ukraine support their government?” Of course I’m against it! We only have one life to live - how can we spend it fighting?” “Everyone is against war! What are you talking about? What, do you think I support war? I’m against it, too! It’s the politicians, that Zelensky… He handed out weapons, it’s really awful. “Do you know anyone who’s against the war?” To enter into the darkness and feel around for something human. We just wanted to get some sense of what was going through people’s heads. They are not intended to be representative. We conducted over 50 interviews in total. Later, I talked to people in the Kaluga and Kostroma regions. The other half were usually open to fairly in-depth conversations. Half of the people we asked refused to talk to us. We thought that what was going on was so insane, everyone must have questions about it. My friend Alisa, a sociologist whose name has been changed, and I started walking around Moscow and asking random people how they felt about the war in Ukraine. It occurred to me that today, we’re in a position to answer this question. We’ve wondered how an entire nation, all of those regular people, decided to go along with total insanity. It seemed nightmarish, you just wanted to run from it.įor many decades, everyone had been asking if Germans in 1939 really didn’t understand what was going on. But I too couldn’t understand how the majority of Russians could possibly support all of this. After Bucha and Kramatorsk, Ukrainians seem to have stopped caring what Russians think.