To bomb Voronezh
"To bomb Voronezh" (Russian: Бомбить Воронеж, romanized: Bombit' Voronezh) is a Russian-language internet meme and political idiom, referring to self-destructive actions by the Russian regime that harm the population, akin to the English "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face". == History == Early iterations of the meme came in the aftermath of the Russo-Georgian War, when Russian authorities allocated large amounts of money to reconstruct destroyed cities of South Ossetia.