Slava Ukraini [Glory to Ukraine]

From the 'For us this is real'-department

Definitely not by choice

Thursday evening and it's almost eight o'clock. Holland is coming to a halt. Tonight we remember those who have fallen during World War II. Even if you're not a big fan of symbolic gestures like me, it's a powerful moment.

Yesterday my country celebrated the end of the Second World War, mostly with loud music. And like I wrote somewhere before, because freedom is special, we get a day off once every five years. Except if you work in government, then you have May 5 of every single year. Clearly some are more equal than others. Some things never change.  

[Spring of 1945]

Greetings from Holland

Still haven't made good on my promise that this will be the year of 'let's get dangerous'. Darkwing Duck is ashamed of me, I can assure you. But you know where it's really dangerous? Of course you do. No, not the Kremlin, that was a fake drone to make the population hungry for more war.

Published a number of powerful images of women in Ukraine during the war in previous posts. Two days ago we remembered our dead, yesterday we celebrated our freedom. Meanwhile both men and women in Ukraine are fighting for that same freedom, so that in 70 years time their great-grandchildren can party, drink and listen to loud music. If they want to. Because that's freedom too.

Today 11 images of women soldiers in Ukraine. There are no credits because several of them I lifted from magazines that one way or another took advantages of the horrors of war for their own benefit, either monetary or to advance some cause that totally irrelevant in today's war-torn Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

This soldier just wanted to make her children proud. Job well done.