Yes!

Back in Feb 2022, I was in denial that all russians are bad; I believed they'll do smth in their country to stop their crazy government, and so on, and so forth... But the more I listened to them (ordinary, average russians, I mean), the more I watched interviews with their POWs and the relatives of those POWs, the more I realized the pure evil exists. And it's super banal: an average rus Ivan hating the whole world for his bad life and willing to turn that world into ruins for everyone to live as bad as he lives. But he loves putin and sees him as a great leader making their russia a great state everybody is afraid of. I accepted the true evil exists and it's my neighbour. I must keep living with all of it, accepting the fact the rest of the planet denies to see it and continues looking for "poor rus guys, victims of the regime", not understading they aren't regime victims but its creators.

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my latest here:

https://medium.com/balakun/my-extra-power-for-story-writing-040edda04705