Dear Mr Schwarzenegger!
I’m sure you remember me. In 2015, at the Arnold Classic competition in the USA, I, a 15-year-old girl from Russia, set a world record by lifting a barbell weighing 150 kilograms. You were congratulating me, asking about Russia, and I was crying with joy. You seemed so thoughtful, kind and smart to me. You left me an autograph on the sleeve of your branded jacket, and it remained with me, as a good memory of our meeting.
To set this record, to lift a barbell at that time, was a matter of honor and a huge responsibility for me. I carried for you, Mr Schwarzenegger, letters and photos from the children of the warring Donbass, which by March 2015, I had already visited twice. Yes, I could not stay at home, in Moscow, when Ukraine declared war on Donbass, when for my peers from Donbass, the school bell meant not only a school break, but also the beginning of shelling and bombing. In every school where I performed and talked with the children, I talked first of all about you, about my idol both in sports and in life. An ordinary boy from a poor Austrian family became a famous athlete, then a movie actor, then a politician – and all this thanks to sports and dedication. Of course, those Donbass children knew and watched your films. I told them that in the spring of 2015 I will be going to the USA again for competitions, and maybe I’ll see you.
And those children, ordinary schoolchildren from the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics, started to write letters and send photos with a request to give them to you. They were telling the Terminator how they live in the war, asking for help, asking for the simplest advice – how to play sports in such difficult conditions, how to develop, how to become a successful person. The Donetsk children saw you as a strong hero who they hoped would be able to protect them. I printed out the photos, translated the letters, handed you an envelope and said, “Arnold, I was recently in Donbass with a humanitarian sports mission, there is a war going on there, and children, schoolchildren, asked me to hand over these letters for you”. You said then, “Ukraine, yes, yes, I know. I’ll take a look, I’ll work on it”, and handed the envelope to your assistant.
Mr Schwarzenegger, I watched your message to my fellow Russians. Obviously, you didn’t “work” on the letters I gave you, even though you promised. You are a wonderful motivator, athlete and actor, you are really loved in Russia, but your message is based on some other invented reality. It often happens in the movies. But the truth about what happened, Arnold, is in the letters that have been kept by your assistants since 2015. The true reality, Arnold, is on the ‘Alley of Angels’ memorial, in Donetsk, where everyone can read the names of children who were killed by bullets and bombs of the Ukrainian army. And the reality is, Arnold, that your Terminator not only did not protect, did not help, did not save the children of Donbass, but did not even read their letters and did not try to understand the situation.
Mr Schwarzenegger, I have visited Donbass more than 20 times since 2014, I have visited the most dangerous combat zones there. I have visited more than 120 schools, talked to thousands of children, held more than a hundred children’s sports events, even though I am an ordinary Russian girl, not an iron fearless Terminator warrior. In your message you tell about your farther, who did not like Russians and who, along with the Nazi, came with weapons to my Russian, then Soviet, land. You say that there is no Nazism in Ukraine, you tell about the Jewish president of Ukraine, and that Russian bombs are allegedly destroying Ukraine now.
Arnold, sometimes it is very difficult to understand, being thousands and thousands of kilometers away from us, but you still have those letters and photos from 2015, don’t you? In fact, you could just come and see everything in person, you are a brave man. Haven’t you visited American soldiers in Iraq, you taught them to train and keep fit during Operation Desert Storm? Arnold, I’m not asking what your American military was doing, in Iraq, at that time, and why they ruined that country, probably your government knows better.
But I would like to remind you. Your family once was already deceived by Nazism, and your father came to my homeland with a gun, killing and maiming my compatriots. It was this mistake that caused your poor childhood. It was because of this mistake that your father did not like Russians until the end of his life. Hitler got what he deserved then, but after so many years, his ideological heirs are raising their heads again. I would like to remain you that, you yourself once admired Hitler, after which, you later repented for a long time. But those in Ukraine, who admire Hitler’s collaborators, such as Stepan Bandera, are far from repenting. The Bandera supporters who seized power in Ukraine, they destroy monuments to Soviet soldiers, rename streets of Ukraine cities after Nazi criminals. They declared war on the people of Donbass, who disagreed with the coup d’etat; the war, which in 8 years claimed more than 14 thousands civilian lives.
And the fact that Mr.Zelensky, as you say, is a Jew did not save those people. Nazism has no nationality. The world “Nazism” didn’t come from the world “Germans.” Russophobia is as terrible as anti-Semitism. Do you remember how in the Terminator sequel (“Judgment Day”), your character goes back in time to prevent the creation of Skynet, which will be responsible for the death of humanity in the future? Russia’s special military operation has no purpose to destroy the Ukrainian people. It is aimed at the neo-Nazi Skynet, which, over the years, has completely subjugated Ukraine and was just to turn into an uncontrollable monster, dangerous for all its neighbors, not only for Russia.
Mr. Schwarzenegger, please, find and reread the letters children of Donbass wrote to you back in 2015. In the near future, I’m going to visit the Donbass schools again. Arnold, I’m sure it’s no more frightful and dangerous there, than it was in Iraq – I invite you to see everything with your own eyes.
Don’t side with Skynet, Terminator! Who better knows that good should be able to defend itself than you?
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