here is what’s in store for you this week:
The outsized role of Roma people fighting colonialism in the past and today, which nobody talks about;
The colonial reality behind the ‘great russian culture’ mythology: Tolstoy presented himself as a believer in equality and freedom abroad, but at home, he was a colonial landlord and a troubadour for russian settler colonialism;
How modern-day russia recycles Soviet propaganda to excuse colonial invasions;
How the colonial myth of Donbas helps russia to excuse the ongoing colonial war in Ukraine;
How “great russian culture” drives russian imperialism and colonialism in practice.
Russian Colonialism 101 is the first newsletter to shed light on russian colonialism and is part of the Volya Hub network. What is happening to Ukraine has happened many times before, and the rest of the world has been conditioned to overlook or misdiagnose it. This isn’t history. It’s how you stop being shocked by what was always predictable.
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