Opinion: Lenin – 100 Years On, His Dark Shadow Still Hangs Over Us
On the centenary of Lenin’s death, how should Ukrainians remember the Bolshevik tyrant who created the USSR?
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On the centenary of Lenin’s death, how should Ukrainians remember the Bolshevik tyrant who created the USSR?
Renfrey Clarke — Few questions of international politics have seen the Western left as sharply divided as the war in Ukraine. But there is no good reason why Marxists, with the writings of Vladimir Lenin at their disposal, should lack clarity on how to analyse the war.
Ivan Dziuba - literary critic, public figure, academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine - belongs to the "sixties". He fully takes care of all the miscalculations and unfulfilled promises of his generation. Reflects on why the illusions were lost and why so few dreams came true ... Let's see and listen to him with his wife Martha, a Lviv woman who was his guardian angel. Together - all life. Exactly as they are, the right is the definition - the conscience of the nation.
Ukrainian intelligence officer Ivan Dziuba spent 13 days in Russian captivity, from where he returned with amputated legs and without a finger on his hand. The story of the 32-year-old defender was told at the National Rehabilitation Center Nezlamni ('Unbreakable' in Ukrainian - ed.
Denys Pilash — On March 11th 2023 our friend and comrade of Commons, known political economist, political scientist, labour movement historian and an activist of left-wing movements and solidarity with Ukraine, Marco Bojcun, passed away.