We are All Ukrainians

About the online exhibition

This exhibition is an anti-war statement by the Museum of Science Fiction and the artist, Michal Klimczak against Putin's invasion of a sovereign neighbor country and the Russian military's indiscriminate extermination of innocent Ukrainian people and their children.

We support the Ukrainian fight for survival and resistance to Putin's evil aspirations. We ask the free world to rise above their fears of Russian retaliation and to actively cripple Russia - by any and all available means - until Putin is removed from office and tried for war crimes. Much more must be done with providing Ukraine with equal war fighting tools and personnel. Their fight is our fight. If we let the Ukrainians fall, Russia will come for us next. Putin’s hatred for the free world is relentless.

The similarities to Nazi atrocities are astonishing as Putin becomes Hitler of the 21st century. His regime must not survive. His assault on human rights must be permanently suffocated. How many more Ukrainian children must be killed before the free world is sufficiently enraged into wartime action? Failure to remove Putin and his regime is this century's greatest threat to the future of human rights. We hope that this small effort can somehow make a difference.

This exhibition will also be available on the Museum's mobile app and VR experience to be released later this year. We also would like to place physical installations at the Embassy of Ukraine in Berlin, Krakow, Washington, DC, and London. Exhibition narrative translations (as they become available) can be downloaded below. Click for press release.

We are all Ukrainians

Let us see action, let us not stand by and just watch as they struggle to survive
Let us give active support, not with just words, not with just more guns
Let us join their fight, their fight is our fight

If we let the Ukrainians fall, we will fall next and the shame will be ours and we will have made freedom a myth
For it is better to die aiding their defense than to let them die and live with the aftershame
The Russian invaders are killing their babies, our babies will be next
Let us join their fight, their fight is our fight
Let us defend their babies, their children are our children, our children will be next
If we love our children, we need to give them a better future

The images created by Klimczak are visual harbingers of the world to come if we let the Ukrainians fall
Our children will be committed to desolation
Desolation will be our legacy to them and they will be right to hate us

Klimczak depicts humanity's failure
The images are without any trace of hope
Broken war machines, desolate land, obliterated people
Despair

If we let the Russians suffocate these people, Klimczak's images will certainly come to be
Let us pray for victory over the evil oppressors
Let us defend against evil aggression and unjust causes
Let us protect our neighbor's children, for our children will surely be next
Let us join their fight, their fight is our fight

If we fail to suffocate this evil, it will come back stronger and in greater numbers
Let us not condemn our children to live in a future with no trace of hope

If we love our children, let us rise up against the Russian invaders and those that may come after them
Let us join their fight, their fight is our fight
We will not go quietly, freedom isn't free
We are all Ukrainians now

Exhibition Postscript

If you're morally enraged . . . mobilize now
mobilization will help to suffocate Putin's evil

Also worth noting . . .
Russia's invasion was a complete military embarrassment
Everything Putin planned went wrong
Putin even gave NATO a new raison d'etre and united the free world in the process
China is watching

About the Artist

Michał Klimczak (also known as Shume) was born in Krakow, Poland in 1979. He is a self-taught enthusiast of photomontage and 3D graphics, and has been working with computer graphics since 2007. Klimczak has been collaborating with the Museum of Science Fiction on a wide variety of projects since 2014.

In cooperation with the Pakistani photographer, Baber Afzal, Klimczak won 2nd place in the 2014 International Photo Awards competition in the architecture category and continues working to create fantastically surreal atmospheres.

A 300-page hardbound exhibition catalogue of Klimczak’s work is currently being planned will be published by the Museum of Science Fiction in late 2024. The volume will include selections from Klimczak’s science fiction themed portfolio.

The Museum of Science Fiction is a US nonprofit 501c3 organization