My grandmother started crying on the phone: “I don’t want you to ever know what it’s like to hear the shelling and know that it’s coming for you.” War is banal and blind and savage and ultimately meaningless. But there is still something to smile about today, at least for me. If only because itsContinue reading “Happy Victory Day! – С Днем Победы!”
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Spring makes me wish I was in Kyiv
But, you know, Amman is alright for this sort of thing too.
Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda? The “Hitler toys” story is more complicated than you think
Please see an update from me here. I am utterly confounded at the moment. I am ESPECIALLY confounded by the fact that the BBC removed a misleading video without an explanation.
Is that an anti-Ukrainian propaganda piece in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
The original text of this piece has been removed. I am not usually in the habit of sweeping my screw-ups under the carpet, but I didn’t want it to generate Google hits that would, once again, paint Ukraine as a country of evil barbarians. In the original piece, I was expressing outrage that Hitler toysContinue reading “Is that an anti-Ukrainian propaganda piece in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”
A companion essay to “Natasha from Russia” – “The Fist of the Righteous Natasha”
Can be found here. This is still, in many ways, a draft. But I am trying to make it respectable.
Natalia A. 