Book Purges as a Weapon of War
By Anders Ericson and Mikael Böök
Pushkinfall: dozens of statues commemorating Russian poet Alexander Pushkin have been removed across Ukraine.
“Book Purges as a Weapon of War”
The blog post, Book Purges as a Weapon of War,” by Anders Ericson and Mikael Böök, (English translated from Norwegian) provides the background.
Interfax-Ukraine published (in Ukrainian) a very comprehensive plan to discard not just pro-Russian literature, but most Russian literature, including classics, totalling 100 (one hundred) million books. The Ukrainian Institute of Mass Information (IMI) published a summary of the interview here.
It was Russian poets and writers like Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky who laid the foundations for the “Russian world” and Russian messianism.—Ms Oleksandra Koval, head of the Ukrainian Book Institute and the title of the interview is: “Director of UIK Koval: Books are weapons, either defensive or offensive.”
Thank you, Kathleen -- "it is going to be over..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BuMaGlKp0 -- “Democracy Now” – Feb 15, 2023
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• Feb. 16 -- Flash: Sy Hersh on Democracy Now -- "It's going to be over."
https://silentpartner.substack.com/p/flash-sy-hersh-on-democracy-now
• Feb. 15 - Of Limited Hangouts -- Of the arts of distraction and obfuscation.
https://silentpartner.substack.com/p/of-limited-hangouts
• Feb 11 -- Three on Sy -- This will only get more intense.
https://silentpartner.substack.com/p/three-on-sy
• Feb 10 -- Blackout! They don't want you to know. https://silentpartner.substack.com/p/blackout
I agree too. Elif Batuman has an excellent article on a recent New Yorker about Pushkinpad and efforts to ban Russian books. Rereading Russian Classics in the Shadow of the Ukraine Warhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/rereading-russian-classics-in-the-shadow-of-the-ukraine-war