{"id":1351823,"date":"2026-01-31T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/shared-suffering-how-varlamov-and-rodnyansky-play-along-with-the-kremlin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:05:10","slug":"shared-suffering-how-varlamov-and-rodnyansky-play-along-with-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/shared-suffering-how-varlamov-and-rodnyansky-play-along-with-the-kremlin\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Shared Suffering\u2019 Becomes Complicity: Varlamov and Rodnyansky\u2019s Dangerous Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

So-called \u201cGood Russians\u201d continue to push a familiar narrative: blurring the line between aggressor and victim, equating Ukraine with Russia, Ukrainians with Russians, and moral responsibility with collective suffering. In this framing, there are no executioners\u2014only \u201cshared victims,\u201d no accountability\u2014only tragedy that allegedly struck everyone equally.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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It has already happened before, remember? Not the Holodomor, but a \u201cfamine in certain territories of Ukraine, the Volga region, the Kuban, Belarus, the Southern Urals, Western Siberia, and Kazakhstan.\u201d Not \u201cthe physical destruction of millions of Ukrainians in the USSR for being Ukrainian,\u201d but \u201cmillions of victims of Stalinism in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and other republics.\u201d<\/p>\n

And now it is not \u201cthe deliberate torture of Ukrainians with cold and darkness as a means of coercion to force surrender to the occupiers,\u201d but \u201csuffering from frost without electricity in Ukraine and Russia.\u201d The same thing. In Russia, it is supposedly even worse\u2014because they didn\u2019t expect it: \u201cWhat are we doing?!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, Popes, dozens of famous people from various fields, politicians, and Trump and his team have been engaging in this for years. But now, specifically, the \u201cgood Russian\u201d Ilya Varlamov has joined the discussion, dragging along the \u201cgood Ukrainian\u201d Rodnyansky\u2014a producer who for decades made money promoting the \u201cRussian world\u201d in Ukraine and in the minds of Ukrainians, and whom Moseychuk loves very much\u2014who is also suffering greatly from the blackout in Kyiv and is deeply concerned about Ukrainian elderly people and children.<\/p>\n