Behind Ukraine’s rejection of Russia’s revered poet is a much bigger story of imperial decay
Life & ArtsA statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin being dismantled in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in December 2022 © Mykola Myakshykov / UkrInform / Avalon
Small wonder some Ukrainians now refer on social media to “Pushkinists” launching missile attacks on their cities. For example: “Pushkinists didn’t allow us to sleep properly — it was very loud in Kyiv”. Bundles of books in Russian in the cellar of a Kyiv bookstore, waiting to be pulped © Timothy Garton Ash
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