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An ambicolonial war Krytyka 11–12/2025 Russia’s ambicolonial war of cultural erasure; the democratisation of Ukrainian national defence; the imagined Orient of the Soviet underground; literature and the vernacular. Starving ethnic Ukrainians and Moldovans... See more
Change the directors, cut the funding, rewrite the narrative: from Washington to Warsaw, mnemonic warriors are deploying the same techniques to weaponize history. How museums have become key arenas in the culture wars. The great wokeism paradox Originally... See more
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