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Kharkiv Talks in a Viennese Kitchen – On Revolution, War and Literature in Ukraine
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Kharkiv-based translator Zaven Babloyan is executive director of the Oko publishing house. He was born in Moscow and spent his childhood and teenage years in Luhansk and in Shchastia, a town in the Luhansk region that has recently featured prominently in news bulletins from the war zone. He studied physics at the University of Kharkiv, but turned to the humanities while he was still a student. Babloyan has been a translator, literary editor and publisher for over twenty years.
He has translated books by Serhii Zhadan, Natalka Sniadanko, Taras Prokhasko, Lubko Deresh and other contemporary Ukrainian writers into Russian. He has also translated the works of western psychoanalysts – including Robert Hinshelwood, John Steiner and Ronald Britton – from English into Russian. Babloyan was an active participant in the Kharkiv Maidan protests from the day they began. His regu
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Beyond racism and into fascism
Anti-fascist greetings! This week, a 19 year-old-student in Bratislava, Slovakia shot two people dead, outside a gay bar, then killed himself. The gun was apparently owned bygd his father, who in 2020, stood for Parliament for the racist-populist, Slovakian Homeland Party.
The murderer tweeted threats to enemies of “the White Race”. And released a manifesto headed “Race First”. It praised perpetrators of shootings of Muslims, Jews, and socialists in Norway, New Zealand and America, who left similar manifestos. His manifesto especially targeted LGBTI and Jewish communities.
This incident illuminates key aspects of racism and fascism in 2022. It tells us how racism and fascism are evolving, and where they draw strength from.
In many countries including Britain, anti-LGBT and vicious anti-migrant sentiments are not confined to neo-Nazis, but are mouthed by mainstream right-wing politicians and mainstream media. The chief threat to Gypsy Roma Traveller
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Berlin never stops reminding you of what happened there. Several museums examine totalitarianism and the Holocaust; the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe takes up an entire city block. In a sense, though, these larger structures are the least of it. The memorials that sneak up on you—the monument to burned books, which is literally underground, and the thousands of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” built into sidewalks to commemorate individual Jews, Sinti, Roma, homosexuals, mentally ill people, and others murdered by the Nazis—reveal the pervasiveness of the evils once committed in this place. In early November, when I was walking to a friend’s house in the city, I happened upon the information stand that marks the site of Hitler’s bunker. I had done so many times before. It looks like a neighborhood bulletin board, but it tells the story of the Führer’s final days.
In the late nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, when many of these memorials were conceived and