Russian torture of #Ukrainians
#Torturing prisoners is not merely a #WarCrime that #Russians perpetrate, it’s part of #Russian #culture. Susan #Sontag’s 20-year-old essays may help us understand it.
In the Kyiv Independent’s latest investigative #documentary "Torture Culture," we examine the sufferings that Russians systematically inflict on their Ukrainian prisoners ...
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... inflict on their Ukrainian prisoners
- All the beatings
- Electrocutions
- Mutilations
- Sexual abuse
- Psychological violence
Not just as a war crime but as cultural phenomenon, something that Russians do decade after decade, whenever & wherever the opportunity presents itself
From Western Ukraine in 1939-1941 to #Gulag system, #Chechnya to today’s occupied territories, #torture resurfaces again & again
https://kyivindependent.com/regarding-the-torture-of-ukrainians/
Torturing prisoners is not merely a war crime that Russians perpetrate, it's part of Russian culture. Susan Sontag's 20-year-old essays may help us understand it. In the Kyiv Independent's latest investigative documentary "Torture Culture," we examine the sufferings that Russians systematically inflict on their Ukrainian prisoners — all the beatings, electrocutions, mutilations, sexual abuse, psychological violence — not only as a war crime but also a cultural phenomenon, something that Russian
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