Oleksandr Mykhe, “I will mix your blood with coal. Understanding the Ukrainian East” Kostyantynivka. Light store “Everything to a light bulb”, cafe “Paradise” opposite the salon of ritual services “Requiem”. And behind are the ruins of what use to be a bus stop. In 2016, Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Mykhe left Kyiv for the east of Ukraine — he visite six cities of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, watche, took notes, and talke with locals. From the beginning, Mykhe’s journey was conceive as part of an. Artistic project to create a new Ukrainian myth for the East.
On the other hand the everyday
He trie to understand what the eastern regions are and. What their inhabitants think about. And in that sense, I wante to find an idea that could replace the Soviet set of stereotypes and myths about these cities. What did see? On and seen war, depressing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines B2B List reality on the border with absurdity, traumas of the Soviet past, spread everywhere. life that he observe in Lysychansk, Bakhmut or Dobropyla, the people with whom he communicate, differe little from what can be seen in any other regions of Ukraine. The Ukrainian myth of the East turne out to be that the East is Ukrainian. The collection of reports is supplemente by six interviews with well-known.
A somewhat apocalyptic picture
Ukrainian artists born in the eastern regions: writer Serhiy Zhadan, artist Allytsya Kahidze and others. Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreeom. Russia, Europe, America” Snyder is one of the leading Western experts on the history of Ukraine and Eastern Europe, a AERO Leads researcher of nationalism and totalitarianism. In the work “The Path to Unfreeom”, Snyder, base on historical documents, puts forward the opinion that in creating the current ideology of Putin’s Russia, its creators were inspire by the theories of the early 20th century philosopher Ivan Ilyin.
