yeah, i take your point. i don t think many independent historians saw much validity in a lot of what putin was claiming about ukraine s history. but, nonetheless, are you not in danger of going too far the other way when you say, and i think you said it to me pretty much earlier in this interview, you seem to say, oh, we ukrainians are fundamentally different from russians because russia has a sort of collective mind set which is very reflective of a sort of soviet approach. and we ukrainians are highly individualistic, maybe chaotic, but ultimately much more akin to a european individualist way of thinking. that sounds very binary. is it really as simple as that? well, i mean, this is maybe a simplification, because you can find also ukrainians with collective mentality. and these ukrainians lived actually in crimea and in donbas. and they were. i mean, they were nostalgic in crimea about tsarist times because, i mean, there s some kind of cult of. romanov family was supporte
but, nonetheless, are you not in danger of going too far the other way when you say, and i think you said it to me pretty much earlier in this interview, you seem to say, oh, we ukrainians are fundamentally different from russians because russia has a sort of collective mind set which is very reflective of a sort of soviet approach. and we ukrainians are highly individualistic, maybe chaotic, but ultimately much more akin to a european individualist way of thinking. that sounds very binary. is it really as simple as that? well, i mean, this is maybe a simplification, because you can find also ukrainians with collective mentality. and these ukrainians lived actually in crimea and in donbas. and they were. i mean, they were nostalgic in crimea about tsarist times because, i mean, there s some kind of cult of. romanov family was supported in crimea, and half of souvenirs that you could bring from crimea were connected with the history of royal family of russia. at the same time, i
strong, and he gets more and more support also from his previous critics in ukrainian society. so, i am one of his critics, and i stopped criticising him. right. now, you re a writer, not a fighter, but do you believe that there are things that the artistic community, that the sort of wielders of, if i can put it this way, soft power rather than military power, things that they can do to contribute right now? i m thinking, you know, we ve seen decisions taken in the arts world, in the sporting world, to try to isolate russia. i just wonder if you think that makes any difference. it does make a lot of difference, i think. and actually artists and writers in ukraine are very politicised and very engaged.
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Eine Präfektur in Japan hat zwei Altrocker beauftragt, die Bevölkerung für den richtigen Umgang mit Bären zu sensibilisieren. Werden die Tiere bald mit Musik beschallt?