現地の人々の悲痛な叫び

大義のない／大義が国民に幅広く共有されない／大義が共有されるための合理性を欠いた、戦争の帰結である。

２歳の息子を残して戦死したロシア兵士の日記「殺したくない、誰も…」 : 日本•国際 : hankyoreh japan (hani.co.kr)

ロシアの生の声を届けるサイトがあるが、

Would life be better if the war hadn’t started? - YouTube

↑この動画、アップ後猛然たる勢いで視聴回数を増やしている。

このなかに、友人が戦地で亡くなったと話す女性がいたが、そのことの「責任はどこにあるのか」と問うインタビュアーに対し、ためらいながら「世界政治だ」と答えていた。

コメント欄には、２０年以上前に渡米し、ウクライナ戦争開戦前までは定期的に帰国していたが、それもできなくなったと嘆くメッセージがあった。生の現実を伝える悲痛な叫びである。以下、引用する。

I am Russian who moved to the US more than 20 years ago. Yesterday, I visited Auschwitz Exhibition in Los Angeles. I've found so many similarities between World War 2 and today's war in Ukraine - when I was reading of what people were witnessing at the time of the war from both sides - written on the exhibition's walls, I was shocked. Same phrases of ordinary German people I can hear from ordinary Russians today - literally same: that they were always surrounded by enemies and nobody liked them, that every country dreamed to attack them and deprive them from their national values and identity, that they had to start the war first otherwise other countries would do that. With such propaganda, German people became monsters with no mercy and zero empathy. I see that same process is happening with Russian Z patriots. They are just ignoring the fact that people are dying every day in Ukraine for nothing and pretending very hard that nothing is changing in their lives. This is scary! I used to visit my parents and many relatives in Russia every year until the war started, I don't know how to go there now - all my relatives either support it or try to not watch TV news because it can "upset" them.  I know that all wars end some day, but I don't know how I can forget and forgive my family for their choice to be blind and ignorant.