I can just see the inhabitants of Mariupol whispering the lines of Pushkin while dying under Russian bombardment! (translated by Sergey Armeyskov Taras Shevchenko (1814 – 1861) and Aleksandr Pushkin (1799 – 1837), were, respectively, the greatest Ukrainian and Russian national poets) Not Shevchenko’s bullshit but poetry lines from Pushkin
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You’ll whisper and wheeze, your deathbed mattress a-pushing, God rest ye merry Cossacks, hetmans, and gulag guards!īut mark: when it’s your turn to be dragged to graveyards, Here is the most recent one: a poem by Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel Prize winner, written on the occasion of Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991: Many of Russia’s brightest minds seem to suffer from a Ukrainian complex as well.Įxamples abound. It’s just that it doesn’t make much of a difference for Ukrainians, not then and especially not today. Their legacy is everlasting, and in a way, they are the real Russia. Russian oppositionists believe that the essence of Russia does not lie in its “brainless leaders” but in Bulgakov, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Brodsky and other geniuses of Russian culture. Gorbachev claimed that Ukrainians themselves did not want their children to learn Ukrainian. The Ukrainian language was officially banned twice during the liberal reforms of Alexander II. Even during periods of democratization, the Russian authority view of the Ukrainian question was not amicable. Ukrainians’ past and present give them a special insight into Russian history. Before Putin came to power in 2000, opinion polls in Russia showed that most Russians were ready to trade freedom for order, were openly hostile to the West, and dreamed of a strong hand-primarily of a military force that would be respected and feared by the world. The whole truth is that Russians surrendered and became hostages voluntarily.
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If this is true, it is only partially so. In a recent interview on Ukrainian television, Viktor Shenderovich, a Russian critic of Putin who escaped to Israel, urged us not to judge all Russians too harshly, as they are nothing but hostages. There is something in Russian culture today making most Russians-even highly educated people-incapable of simple manifestations of human solidarity. Theoretical physics, however, has nothing to do with politics. Since war is a continuation of politics by other means, my fellow historians in Russia might consider me their enemy.
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I understand that history is about politics. The very same thing happened to him: since the beginning of the war, the only Russian colleagues who reached out to him have been those who left Russia. I have a friend who is a professor of theoretical physics. In fact, only two-a married couple, who left Russia long before the war began as they faced the threat of being termed “agents of foreign influence.”