Aizada Arystanbek wrote an alarming text in 2022 on the many issues with the romanticizing of the USSR, eg by young Western leftists pledging allegiance to the Soviet Union on Tik Tok… here’s a copy, and it accounts for Russian-Soviet genocides across Central Asia
www.academia.edu/127025324/Wh...

Deadline extended until Nov 30

The 74-yr old historian, “uncle of three political prisoners is now facing prosecution under flawed legislation outlawing comparison between the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany. The charges are over entirely legitimate comments about Stalin’s 1944 Deportation of the entire Crimean Tatar people”

I think of the Executed Renaissance, murderous Soviet purges of whole generations of intellectuals from Ukraine across Belarus, Georgia and Qazaqstan… and I think of how little this epistemicidal necropolitics bothered anyone outside the affected societies, including many leading decolonial thinkers

I think of the Executed Renaissance, murderous Soviet purges of whole generations of intellectuals from Ukraine across Belarus, Georgia and Qazaqstan… and I think of how little this epistemicidal necropolitics bothered anyone outside the affected societies, including many leading decolonial thinkers

Here for it. Plus it strikes me how much work has (obviously) been done in decolonial studies and how little in philosophy, but it mirrors whose perspectives have dominated it and who was “absent.” I think of Patočka who died after years of repression during an interrogation by state socialist cops…

In her talk on ending impunity for Russian imperialism, Oleksanda Matviichuk made a distinction between freedom as self-determination and freedom as survival, which is a significant differentiation that we as philosophers haven’t though on hard enough, and I think we should. Going to take this up

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