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How do you respond when you hear that resisting russia is futile?
What do you tell someone who insists russia was never a “real” European colonial empire?
What can you show a person who believes that Ukrainian culture has always been “backward” and “provincial”?
Plus: why would Moscow spend enormous resources to rewrite Ukrainian cookbooks and order the state canteens to cook a “zombie borscht” that tasted nothing like the original one?
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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THIS WEEK’S READING LIST:
FACT: Resistance to russian invasion is never futile.
PROOF: “The Hole in the Flag” by Péter Dósa.
“Angyal feared that later generations would make heroes and martyrs of the dead and torment themselves with their memory. He wanted his friends to go on living. In my translation, his words were these: “Live, laugh with your mouths wide open, because we wanted to live that way too.””