
22: Ukrainian Ideas in the 21st Century
The Making of Modern Ukraine
00:00
The Last Gay Club, Is It?
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,
Transcript
Play full episode