Alexander J. Motyl: Here’s why more Ukrainians admire nationalists, and why the West shouldn’t freak out
Ukrainian university students gather during a rally in front of Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev on April 7, 2016. The students, representatives of different regions of the country, held the to action demand an improvement in their social protection and the quality of education in the country.
Here's a suggestion that will strike you as either painfully obvious or unnecessarily cumbersome. If you really want to understand contemporary Ukraine and Ukrainians, you need to know Ukrainian. If you accept that point, then discard all the writings by linguistically challenged analysts incapable of delving deeper into the Ukrainian psyche—and then go see two plays in Kyiv and visit two villages south of Kyiv.
