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22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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2014 was a turning point, where major figures in Ukrainian culture realized that they weren't really welcome in Russia anymore. Volodomie Raffaenko ceased communicating in Russian entirely with this war and is now a Ukrainian language writer. We're looking at a new centrality of Kiev - something that hasn't been before. It's a Kiev which is asserting itself as a kind of European capital. I'm going to read a poem from Stus, which is about Soviet Kiev,. A thousand-year-old Kiev fancied feeling young again. Suddenly, Kiev was aware of hotels, trolley buses, trams, and trains. The slopes of the Green Theater became overrun by Martin,

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