This page was originally used for the written version of the MEGA: The Ukrainian Divide Episode 1, released for ED on the 13th of September 2024, but with the release of the Divide Multimedial Article, which this post is about, that version became redundant, so it was turned into this announcement post on the 27th of August 2025.
It’s over, it’s finally over.
MEGA: The Ukrainian Divide, a documentary project that has taken up years of my life, is finished, with the release of its written version known as MEGA: The Ukrainian Divide - The Multimedial Article, hosted on a companion site to the main Entropic Domain site via Quartz.
I won’t go too much into the history of this project here, since you can explore that in the Multimedial’s Foreword, but it started in September 2022 as a sequel to MEGA: The Ukraine Narratives, the second documentary in the MEGA series which we’d released 6 months prior (after writing and producing it in the space of a week or so) with a runtime of about an hour. Divide (as it came to be called) became a far bigger project, with a roughly 10 hour runtime and years of writing and production, becoming a multi-video project split into 4 episodes:
- Episode 1 - The Birth of Ukraine (covering key events for Ukraine in the century of geopolitics leading up to the modern war, as well as current events news)
- Episode 2 - The Kremlin’s Brain (covering the same century for Russia to explore how their imperialist mentality developed, picking apart their motivations and attacking their hypocrisy)
- Episode 3 - A Tango with Hitler (exploring the network of far-right and Neo-Nazi military and political groups attached to the war and leeching off of it)
- Episode 4 - The War for Your Mind (covering examples of misinformation and censorship, promoting media literacy, exploring the use of shock media and offering a conclusion with our take on the war’s fate)
Episode 1 released in video form on YouTube on Massi’s YouTube channel Cheecken in December 2023, later re-released with some corrections in March 2024 on an alternate channel called MEGA Documentaries (a spin off channel originally made because Massi speculated that MEGA didn’t quite fit with the rest of his channel, but ultimately abandoned because we felt that the problems in gaining traction from starting fresh weren’t worth it), but due to a series of creative detours and hiatuses it took until January 2025 for Episodes 2-4 to release on video, the final episode releasing Jan 20th.
But we still needed to get the written version of the doc out as well as the Far-Right Repo, a kind of homegrown wiki we made for Episode 3 to map out our findings of the Ukraine conflict’s Far-Right and Neo-Nazi networks (originally made for internal use, but something we’d ultimately pledged in the video to release publicly), the FRR had been in the works since around January 2023 when we started work on what became Episode 3, while the Multimedial was started in May 2024, being combined in June 2025 and finally successfully ported to Quartz and released yesterday, August 26th.
With the full doc released in both video and written form, alongside our promised research resource, I can truly consider this series a finished job, though there will still be some further additions, with a new cut of the doc called the Omnibus Cut (which will have all 4 episodes in 1 roughly 10 hour video, with minor corrections and edits) and a set of bonus episodes (journalistically important ones being released publicly, while others, especially production related ones, will be exclusive to a commercial version available on Gumroad) planned for the coming months.
And with the job done I can feel a weight lifted and look forward to the potential for the future, I’ve already been working on all sorts of different article projects but with this mammoth of a doc out the way, no longer hogging our time and causing a massive drought in Massi’s uploads, we can think to more video projects too, there’s plenty of ideas we can explore and now, plenty of time to go and do it too.
Until then, check out this extensive project, presented creatively with an experimental resources in a way none of our other articles are, you can start reading MEGA: The Ukrainian Divide - The Multimedial Article, ED’s sister site, here.