Linda Kinstler
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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And so it's this, it's this place that you can't escape the meaning, but it's also full, it's a place that is full of contemporary life.
And if you it's a place where you can observe how Ukraine has evolved in narrativizing its own history and thinking through what it is to be a nation.
Yeah, I mean, I think, first of all, the idea of thinking about genocide as a crime of negation is one that has been espoused by many scholars, you know,
I draw upon a lot the work of Mark Natchanian, who's a literary scholar who studied the Armenian genocide.
And he looked at how, you know, the event itself was documented, and there were efforts to hold the perpetrators to account.
But then the records of the efforts to hold these people to account were themselves burned.
And so it's this kind of
recursive erasure, not only of the crime itself, which erases human life, but also the records of what took place, where it was, if there were any attempts at justice, that kind of thing.
And of course, Jean-Francois Lyotard has also wrote about this.
And I think that for me, it really helps contextualize how much is lost and what is at stake.
And especially as we think about
memorializing or kind of pursuing tribunals.
But to answer your question, basically, after the Soviets retook Kyiv, they did document what had occurred at Babyn Yar.
They did, you know, there were survivors, there were prisoners of war.
There were kind of local civilians who knew and had observed what had occurred there.
So, you know, there were American and Western journalists who were brought to the site and told in English through a translator what had transpired.
There were photographs taken, which Maxime has used in his work.
And then, you know, after this kind of initial period of recording, there was this
real suspicion of any attempt to think about the specificity of the crime in how it was directed against the Jews of Ukraine and kind of wiped out almost entirely the population there.
The Soviets began to think of any kind of demonstration of Jewish collectivity
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