Linda Kinstler
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Yeah, I mean, I think when I saw that the missiles had, you know, landed at that particular area of Kiev, it just struck me, you know, I think from the
American perspective, especially kind of in the early days of this full-scale invasion, you know, people were really grasping to understand exactly what was going on, why it was happening now, what was actually unfolding upon the territory of Kyiv, and
And that particular territory, I had been going there for many years because it is also the site of Babinyar, which was the largest massacre of Jews to take place during World War II.
It was kind of the starting spot of what is called the Holocaust by bullets.
And so I had been very familiar with that place because of its immense historical meaning.
And
You know, I had been speaking to a lot of colleagues and friends as the kind of war was unleashed, trying to explain the full gravity and perversity of the logic behind it.
And, you know, when I saw that strike upon Babiniar, I thought, well, this is exposing everything that is being lost in real time, right?
in Ukraine, you know, not just, it's the site that carries so much meaning for contemporary Ukraine, for contemporary Europe, for how we think about, I don't know, European life in the past and in the way that this war is being framed unjustly as this kind of, you know, attempt, as Vladimir Putin said, to denazify Ukraine.
It just seemed to me to be this
most ironic, most perverse, most kind of straightforward illustration of the ways that history can be manipulated in the present.
And so that's why I thought it was most important to kind of focus on this one strike, at least to begin to explain what's happening.
Yeah, and if I can just add that, you know, something to understand about Babiniar is that it's this place that is completely saturated with historical meaning, with contemporary resonance.
And as Maxime was describing, there have been, it's this place that's been
erased and destroyed and built upon many, many times.
And there were previous memorial efforts.
And every time a new memorial went up, it reflected something about the state that Ukraine was in at the time.
Whether you look at the kind of gargantuan Soviet memorial that
is erected there and what it is still to this day, what a lot of people think of when they visualize Babiniyar, or if you look at the smaller memorials that were erected on the site after the fall of the Soviet Union, you know, you kind of, it's this eerie place that is now, you know, a kind of placid recreational park with apartment buildings on either side and a metro station deep underground, which of course was used as a bomb shelter.
after February 25.
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