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The Cockroach and the Sparrow

A fable about Russian dictators offers hope against hope about the end of the country’s dynasty of despotism.

by Matthew Omolesky

January 9, 2023, 10:45 PM

In some kingdom, in some land, beyond seven mountains, beyond seven rivers, beyond the hills, beyond the valleys, as every good Slavic folktale ought to begin, there lay a country where all the animal...

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Matthew Omolesky is a human rights lawyer and a researcher in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and law and anthropology. A Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he has been contributing to The American Spectator since 2006, as well as to publications including Quadrant, Lehrhaus, Europe2020, the European Journal of Archaeology, and Democratiya.

The Cockroach and the Sparrow A fable about Russian dictators offers hope against hope about the end of the country’s dynasty of despotism.

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The Cockroach and the Sparrow

A fable about Russian dictators offers hope against hope about the end of the country’s dynasty of despotism.