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Boris Khersonski: “In Ukraine, Putin is destroying the Russian culture he says he defends”

2022-12-01T19:31:28.311Z


BIG INTERVIEW - The great Ukrainian poet recounts how Imperial Russia has for centuries denied the existence of the Ukrainian nation, calling its language "damaged Russian" and confiscating its history. He also confides how he, a Russian speaker, gradually...


LE FIGARO.

- You are considered one of the greatest poets of the Russian language in Ukraine.

You are also a psychoanalyst.

How to understand the stubbornness of Russia, not only of power, but of a large part of the cultural intelligentsia, to deny Ukraine as a country and a culture?

Is it the imperial spring?

BORIS KHERSONSKY

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- The Second World War began as a revenge for Germany after its defeat in the first war.

Revanchism emerges when there is humiliation.

The breakup of the USSR was perceived by a large part of the Russian people as a humiliation, not a liberation alas, despite the fact that the first to announce their exit from the USSR were the Russians.

Let's not forget that Yeltsin was the first to say that we had to take as much sovereignty as we could absorb.

But action calls for reaction.

Pushkin has become a propaganda instrument of Putinism

Boris Khersonsky

And the reaction to the Belovejskié meeting (which marked the end of the USSR), renamed the “Belovejskié putsch” by the nationalists…

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Source: lefigaro

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