Ukrainians feel a need to tell the world and especially Russians what has happened here. The country’s contemporary artists find themselves at the forefront of that storytelling mission.
when ukraine artists and writers and poets were sent to gulags. the year when i was born in the mid-80s, a ukrainian died in a soviet gulag. so the repressive system, it existed until very recently and what putin does now, he kind of tries to recreate it. he succeeded in a certain degree. he included in belarus, with the help of his crony, lukashenko. and he s been trying also to impose this system to recreate it in ukraine, to recreate the rule, by former president kovich, who was kept in 2014. and when this attempt of controlling ukraine with soft power failed, putin used the military power and attacked ukraine and he s continuing to wage the war in ukraine with the