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What do you tell a person who says occupation is just living under a different flag?
What do you tell a leftist who can’t reconcile Lenin with empire?
What do you tell anyone who still calls Eastern Europe russia’s backyard?
Plus: a novelist who spent three decades decolonising Ukraine’s voice in the world, and an archive of Jewish life in Ukraine that survived a century of imperial erasure.
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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