Historical memory and national identity are intertwined. Authoritarians — left-wing, right-wing, it doesn't matter -- attack and rewrite history in order to consolidate their leadership of a state and to develop a culture centered on their figure. Lavrov has had the nerve to say that Russia did not attack Ukraine. Putin has had the gall to say that Ukraine does not exist. No wonder Trump and his colleagues admired them, while selling Americans on white-washed nostalgia for a country that enslaved, discriminated, exploited, and oppressed the many for the benefit of a few. "Make America great again" was not a way to bend the arc of history to justice. It was a way to break it. Что делать? What is to be done?
Shielding the Ukrainian Sky…in Times Square
Shielding the Ukrainian Sky…in Times Square
Shielding the Ukrainian Sky…in Times Square
Historical memory and national identity are intertwined. Authoritarians — left-wing, right-wing, it doesn't matter -- attack and rewrite history in order to consolidate their leadership of a state and to develop a culture centered on their figure. Lavrov has had the nerve to say that Russia did not attack Ukraine. Putin has had the gall to say that Ukraine does not exist. No wonder Trump and his colleagues admired them, while selling Americans on white-washed nostalgia for a country that enslaved, discriminated, exploited, and oppressed the many for the benefit of a few. "Make America great again" was not a way to bend the arc of history to justice. It was a way to break it. Что делать? What is to be done?