Ukraine’s Velvet Revolution is unfinished, but liberal nationalism may be just the cure Ukraine needs to treat its post-colonial inferiority, says Mykola Riabchuk, one of Ukraine’s most-known and published intellectuals, in an deep-diving interview that touches upon the international solidarity behind the Iron Curtain — and the discursive walls bring erected in the Europe of today.
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A boy looks as people hold the Ukrainian flag, almost 30 meters in length, was stretched out in Kyiv’s downtown Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, on National Flag Day on Aug. 23, 2020.
