April 7, 2022

"I finally understood the most important thing: You need to love yourself and live for yourself. Finally I will live the way I want."

Said Iryna Filkina, 52, who had reached out to a makeup artist named Anastasiia Subacheva to ask about makeup classes. 

Filkina was, according to Subacheva, hoping to get more Instagram followers, and talking "about what she would wear and how she would do her makeup" for "an upcoming concert by the Ukrainian pop diva Olya Polyakova." 

The quotes are from the NYT article: "A makeup artist recognized this Bucha victim’s picture by her manicure." 

At the link, you will see the photograph of the dead woman's hand. 

I will give you this, from Olya Polyakova:

8 comments:

David Begley said...

The Lady Gaga of Ukraine.

Pop culture is our number one export.

David Begley said...

War crimes of the worst nature: Deliberately targeting civilians. But Russia will get away with it because Biden and the UN are impotent.

Zelensky was right. Russia needs to be kicked off the UN Security Council as long as Putin is in charge. Same deal for China. China keeps slaves and they unleashed covid on the world.

For Christsakes, it’s 2022 not 1822.

tommyesq said...

I'll take rhyming names for $200, Alex.

Charlotte Allen said...

Olya looks Eurovision-ready.

Amadeus 48 said...

Hmmm...

Techno-pop--the highest achievement of Western culture.

I think the most important thing--THE MOST IMPORTANT THING--is the way black bodies are portrayed in that video. It reeks of white fragility. Did they import slaves from Africa to give color to the Slavs who will watch it? And did you notice the detached hand in the dumpster-diving scene near the end? Eeek!

As we sit here, academics at our finest universities are relegating Olya Polyakova to the hell of white whatever. Let that be a lesson to all of us.

Rollo said...

"Subacheva"?

"Undaacheva" would have been better.

farmgirl said...

My sister is very passionate about the war crimes being committed in Ukraine. She gets video from somewhere of a man living and reporting in real time- a(n) Ukrainian man. A man of Christian Faith. She’s very angry about this war. And that’s good b/c she can see how it happened. She used to have zero time or patience listening, discerning the Truth of things for herself.

She’s my big sister, 12yrs older and I love watching her grow.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Those Ukraine girls really knock me out.
But she shoulda left those ghetto youf behind.