In true Stalinist manner, Russian culture is being weaponized in the war against Ukraine. But instead of cancelling Russian writers, should we read them with a critical eye – just like other European classics?
Konstantin Akinsha
Ukrainian–American art historian, curator and journalist. He is an expert on art expropriated during World War II. His books include Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe’s Art Treasure (1995, with Grigorii Kozlov and Sylvia Hochfield). Since the beginning of the war, he has been publishing the blog Culture in Peril: The Destruction of the Cultural Property of Ukraine by the Russian Occupiers.
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