What lies behind russia’s acts of extreme violence? Freudian analysis offers an answer
by Peter Pomerantsev
Extract
Few have captured the russian cycle of self-destruction and the destruction of others as well as the Ukrainian literary critic Tetyana Ogarkova. In her rewording of dostoevsky’s russian classic novel Crime and Punishment .... Ogarkova calls russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/ecocide-russia-ukraine-war-kakhovka-dam-destroyed#Ukraine 🇺🇦