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Articles by Cathy Young (page 8)
April 8, 2022 5:30 am
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Fascist Buffoon Whose Shtick Stuck, Dead at 75
His career may have been started by the KGB, but it ended with striking similarities to Putin and Trump.
April 4, 2022 2:31 pm
The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists
Commentators suffering from Ukraine Derangement Syndrome are distorting and distracting from the horrible facts.
April 1, 2022 4:52 am
‘The Dragon’: Russia’s Satirical Parable of Autocracy and the Human Spirit
This 1944 play could have been written as an allegory for Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
March 30, 2022 5:30 am
Freedom and Democracy in Russia, Then and Now
Pavel Litvinov—a Soviet dissident who was exiled to Siberia for his role in the 1968 Red Square demonstration—discusses Putin’s Ukraine…
March 25, 2022 5:16 am
Ukraine’s Memory Wars
Messy, contradictory tales of nationalism and anti-Semitism, and a Russian WWII poem.
March 22, 2022 5:30 am
Our Nasty, Stupid, Frivolous Cancel Culture Fights (That We’re Lucky Enough to Have)
They’re the worst. Good for us.
March 17, 2022 5:30 am
Digging Into Russia’s Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’
Context and contrition.
March 16, 2022 5:30 am
Two Years of Covidiocy
How the pandemic became part of the culture wars and brought out the dumb in our polarized politics.
March 14, 2022 5:30 am
How Freedom and Dreams of a ‘Normal Life’ Died in Post-Cold-War Russia
Optimism about democracy gave way to Putin’s chilling tyranny.
March 9, 2022 5:30 am
Blaming the Ukraine Invasion on … the Gays?
How the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a Putin enabler, spins the war.
