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Feuilletons 06.12.2013 […] of disparate entities, animating an object, objectifying a human body part, or casting a dazzling web of shadows on it."
Der Historiker Timothy Snyder ermuntert in der NYRB die EU nachdrücklich, die Demonstranten in der Ukraine zu unterstützen. Janukowitsch habe die falschen Gründe, das Abkommen mit der EU nicht zu unterzeichnen: "If this is a revolution, it must be one of the most common-sense revolutions […] controlling it, and therefore that smart geopolitics involves turning them against each other. (...) The dangerous fantasy is the Russian idea that Ukraine is not really a different country, but rather a kind of slavic younger brother. This is a legacy of the late Soviet Union and the russification policies of the 1970s. It has no actual historical basis..."
[…] revolutions in history. But the desire of so many to be able to have normal lives in a normal country is opposed by two fantasies, one of them now exhausted and the other extremely dangerous. The exhausted fantasy is that of Ukraine's geopolitical significance. Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych seems to believe, and he is not alone, that because Ukraine lies between the European Union and Russia, […]