Show threadAndiiasJul 6, 2023

And, 30 years later, a response to #Kundera by #Ukrainian intellectual Mykola #Riabchuk: "Shifting the Wall Further East."
https://www.aspen.review/article/2021/shifting-wall-east-kunderas-tragedy-central-europe-three-decades-later/

Ryabchuk points out that Kundera's setting "Western" European traditions against "Eastern" non-European ones - pushed nations further east outside the consciousness of Europeans, where they were left to fend for themselves against an #Russian will to dominate.
#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine

Shifting the Wall Further East. Kundera’s Tragedy of ‘Central Europe’ Three Decades Later - Aspen Institute Central Europe

Shortly after the fall of Yanukovych’s regime in late February 2014, I got a call from a Czech journalist asking for a brief comment. Her first question was fully in line with the Russian coverage of the events: “Was it a revolution in Kyiv or a coup d’etat?” I lost my nerves and responded in …

Aspen Institute Central Europe