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The Ally of Executioners: Pushkin, Brodsky, and the Deep Roots of Russian Chauvinism

There is no sympathy whatsoever for the historic plight of Ukrainians.

by Matthew Omolesky

May 13, 2022, 11:47 PM

October 30, 1992. The dusk of evening has fallen over the San Francisco peninsula, and a modest crowd is filing into the Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, where a solo reading by the Russian émigré p...

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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 Ally of Executioners: Pushkin, Brodsky, and the Deep Roots of Russian Chauvinism There is no sympathy whatsoever for the historic plight of Ukrainians.

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The Ally of Executioners: Pushkin, Brodsky, and the Deep Roots of Russian Chauvinism

There is no sympathy whatsoever for the historic plight of Ukrainians.