Stop Russian Colonialist Aggression

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This group is current mainly focused on raising awareness and calls to action for helping Ukraine in its war against Russia's colonialist aggression. To this end we also encourage as secondary focus:

Sharing Ukrainian Culture
Exposing Russian Compromised Companies/Media/Politicians and Narratives
Exposing the history of Russian Imperialism, under the current regime, under the USSR and under the Tsars.
Raising awareness of other countries suffering from Russia's Colonialist Agression (Chechnya, Syria, Georgia, Belarus, etc).

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Conversation with Serhii Plokhy and Olia Hercules (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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This is a fantastic conversation (roughly 90 minutes with questions) with Serhii Plokhy and Olia Hercules at the Ukrainian Institute London:

The Russo-Ukrainian War on Youtube

Plokhy is a historian and professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard; he's written books including Gates of Europe, an excellent, readable introduction to Ukrainian history. Hercules is a culinary writer with a focus on her native Ukrainian cuisine; her book Summer Kitchens is just fantastic.

Both bring some incredible insight to the conversation, with such different perspectives on topics ranging from geostrategy and war to language. Just wish somebody had asked Olia a bit about whether the culinary landscape in Ukraine is changing in any way like the language use is!

The talk itself was recorded on 17 May, so a couple of weeks before russia blew up the dam - worth bearing in mind when hearing Olia talk about her family home in Kakhovka. Really powerful stuff.

(PS - not put the link in the URL field this time, let's see what happens...)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@[email protected] Thanks for sharing! I will have to have a listen sometime. I love Olia and her 'Summer kitchens'. It's a really beautiful cookbook and recipes are yum! I'm looking forward to checking this out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@dana @[email protected] Sorry, it did not boost your reply to me.

I agree - Summer Kitchens is excellent. I really want to try to write a review some time. It was quite a revelation to me, Ukrainian cuisine - like, it really should be considered one of the top world cuisines. And the fact that not only is it not - but that almost nobody would even think there is such a thing in the first place - probably says quite a lot about the colonial silencing of the Ukrainian culture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@dana @[email protected] I read elsewhere (like this article in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/chef-ievgen-klopotenko-putting-ukrainian-cuisine-back-on-the-map) how even Ukrainians tended to lose memory of their own culinary heritage during Soviet times, and there’s a big movement by people like Ievgen Klopotenko (https://klopotenko.com/en) to reintroduce stuff that was lost back into their culture (he also has a book coming out in English later this year which I’m really looking forward to!).