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We’re Witnessing a New ‘Children’s Crusade’: You’ve Lost Everything, and Now We’re Left to Clean Up the Mess
As part of an ongoing project, T-invariant continues to document the testimonies of Russian academics and educators who speak anonymously about how their lives and professions have transformed under wartime conditions and escalating authoritarian controls. In this installment, the head of an academic program at a Moscow university describes how her students were initially terrified by the war, how they learned to navigate ideological disagreements among themselves, and why they justify the conformism of their thirties.
The Victim Gets It All: Historian Konstantin Pakhlyuk on the Construction of Historical Memory and the “Genocide of the Soviet People”
The latest censorship scandal in Russia involves historian and political scientist Konstantin Pakhlyuk’s book “In Search of Russian Antiquity”, which was removed from the website of the publishing house “Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye” following a complaint by the Orthodox activist group “Sorok Sorokov”. The group accused Pakhlyuk of criticizing the Soviet Army in his social media posts, alleging he had accused it of violence against civilians and liberated concentration camp prisoners. Shortly before this, T-invariant spoke with Pakhlyuk about the most significant shifts in the historical memory of World War II.