kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: If you feel that referring to #Russia soldiers as “orcs” is dehumanising or name ...
If you feel that referring to #Russia soldiers as “orcs” is dehumanising or name calling, here’s good news: this term was actually introduced by a Russian “patriotic” writer Maksim Kalashnikov in 2003 in a sci-fi book called “Outrage of an orc. America versus Russia”, a story about, well, war of America and Russia. The book has been found by a reader of Denis Kazansky https://t.me/kazansky2017/13871
The title is not a coincidence - the author produced a lengthy analysis in the book’s preface to demonstrate that “orcs are about us”:
Orcs were fierce fighters, because they feared their master more than the worst of their enemies; likely, they preferred death over a miserable orc’s life. (…) Can you see it? This Tolkien’s mysticism is about us. Hundreds of years of slavery, and pathological animal cruelty, and contempt of death, and clinical inability to live in democracy and market economy. (…) Us, Russians, if the “old world” isn’t stopped, we will become orcs ourselves.
Interestingly, Kalashnikov is not merely celebrating a tribal image of “Russian orcs”, his words as of 2003 sounds like a warning. On one of the pages reproduced by Kazansky, he even compares a sleek modern US space shuttle of future with “depressive backward Russian army with 20-years old weapons that is at risk of remaining the same in 2010”. As we can see today in films from #Ukraine, Russian army not only remained “depressive backward” in 2024 but it continues to degrade in all aspects…
The title is not a coincidence - the author produced a lengthy analysis in the book’s preface to demonstrate that “orcs are about us”:
Orcs were fierce fighters, because they feared their master more than the worst of their enemies; likely, they preferred death over a miserable orc’s life. (…) Can you see it? This Tolkien’s mysticism is about us. Hundreds of years of slavery, and pathological animal cruelty, and contempt of death, and clinical inability to live in democracy and market economy. (…) Us, Russians, if the “old world” isn’t stopped, we will become orcs ourselves.
Interestingly, Kalashnikov is not merely celebrating a tribal image of “Russian orcs”, his words as of 2003 sounds like a warning. On one of the pages reproduced by Kazansky, he even compares a sleek modern US space shuttle of future with “depressive backward Russian army with 20-years old weapons that is at risk of remaining the same in 2010”. As we can see today in films from #Ukraine, Russian army not only remained “depressive backward” in 2024 but it continues to degrade in all aspects…