Volodymyr Yermolenko
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408 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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Uh what would you tell?
How would you explain, let's say, the Soviet communism compared to their dreams about communism?
There are still some forces in in Europe, including in Greece, who you know by this propaganda, Russian propaganda that Ukrainian fight is nationalist or fascist or whatever.
But the Russia what are you telling me?
Okay.
It's uh thinking that it's very politics is about animals.
And you should side with So you have the same opinion?
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
I think there is a kind of this animalistic or zoological or zoopolitical instinct in the
In your novel uh I was actually when I was reading I was thinking okay what will happen when you will come to the epoch of the black colonels and to the late sixties and early seventies and you stopped this novel before that But now my latest book.
How do you perceive uh these uh societies that remember authoritarianism?
Because what I think is that it's precisely because Ukrainians remember authoritarianism that we understand what does it mean to live without freedom that we fight for freedom so much.
When I see uh when I talk with people in Spain or Portugal that also has, you know, this memory and probably people
Who remember Franco and from your parents?
Do you think that these societies have certain capacity, certain intuition to, you know, fight against the new authoritarianism more than societies that established democracies a long time ago?
I think they are afraid of democracy.
They don't understand what democratic Russia means.
So they they see democracy as a as a danger because democracy brings them, as they believe, only chaos.
Well in our societies Ukrainian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, I don't know, Polish, we know that freedom works.
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