Oleksandr Mykhed is among the voices that sketch an emotional map of rage against Putin’s attack on his neighbour
Oleksandr Mykhed: 'My hatred flows from the small things to the big ones. Every fibre is filled with it. Hatred towards the smallest particle of Russia n collective consciousness and to their greatest symbols.' Photograph: Yurii Stefanyak/Global Images Ukraine via GettyOleksandr Mykhed is a writer who left the ranks of literature to serve in the Ukrainian territorial defence forces in the war with Russia .
He hates them all equally: “My hatred flows from the small things to the big ones. Every fibre is filled with it. Hatred towards the smallest particle of Russian collective consciousness and to their greatest symbols.”Children’s reads: From superbly conceived non-fiction to a fitting capstone for a wonderful careerBut emotion and logic are uncomfortable bedfellows. Russian literature, in Mykhed’s view, is used to promote imperialism and in some cases he has a point.
Dostoevsky is Mykhed’s most frequent target as a symbol of Russian imperial ambitions but during his lifetime, he was imprisoned and subjected to a mock execution by the imperial authorities in St Petersburg. The genuine emotional reasons for Mykhed’s hatred are best set out in Roxolyana Gera’s dispassionate chronicles of events which make up a significant part of the book. Her contributions are without embellishment. They are simple statements such as: “17 November, Viliansk, Zaporizhzhia region. Night missile attack on private residential dwellings. Nine dead.”
Spirin studied at the Luhansk University. He notes the divisions in loyalty in the city. “My classmates, university mates, a bunch of acquaintances remained there in support of the LDPR .
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