Yesterday's event "Pushing Pushkin: the imperialism and decolonization of Russian culture" was a major success.
Thanks to @edwardlucas, Dr Kristina Sabaliauskaitė and co-hosts colleague @rglucks1 and @LithuaniaInEU for making it happen. 1/5
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1633502499293331457
The discussion was not only about the Kremlin's current policy of using culture as a tool of hybrid warfare, but also about the history of Russia, where their cruelty comes from, their obedience to power, what Russia was like in Pushkin's time [cont] 2/5
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1633502502648782850
[cont] its relationship to the Polish and Lithuanian uprisings, and to Adam Mickiewicz.
Unfortunately, the situation of that time is very similar to the situation now. 3/5
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1633502504599134209
Some say that you cannot compare the imperialism of the Tsar's time with Putin's imperialism of the present, because there were writers, thinkers who thought similarly to Pushkin in Britain.
Yes, but today's Britain is not using them as a tool to occupy its neighbors. 4/5
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1633502506918584321
If you would like to listen to our discussion, follow the link: https://streaming.europarl.europa.eu/index_ws4.html?event=20230307-1730-SPECIAL-OTHER 5/5
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