Category: War and Society
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In the past, I rarely watched YouTube, but the bird site’s corruption has seen me on YouTube much more often, as I search for content about Ukraine. Recently I found a good Ukrainian-made series about how Ukrainians in various kinds of media have adapted to Russia’s full-scale invasion. There are…
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Articles related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No paywalls – all links lead to freely available texts.
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Three images from the past welcoming in the new year in an ambivalent period caught between war and peace.
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Christmas in wartime: a German Christmas poster from around 1917 with an angelic fairy bearing presents and a sturdy soldier on the front.
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Quotation: Three lines that I can’t shake from Ukrainian singer-soldier Stasik’s song “Lullaby for the Enemy”.
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Perhaps Putin’s phrase “special military operation” should be seen as something more insidious than a euphemism for war. At the very least, it is consistent with Russia’s genocidal aims and practices in Ukraine. If we take the Clausewitzian metaphor of war as a duel somewhat literally, the Russian invasion of…
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“An Austrian went to Radziwill and came right on to a peasant woman’s pitchfork,” Russian print by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, 1914–15, New York Public Library Digital Collections. The library has digitized five more prints in this series.
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Photograph: Female employees of the German munitions factory WASAG in their work clothes, 1916.