The Myth of a Divided Ukraine
A few days ago a member of the German Green Party came to Lviv. I am a novelist and journalist, as well as a translator in German and Polish, and I sometimes write in those languages. He had read one of my articles, and he asked me to help him understand Ukraine: Too much of the reporting in the German press, he said, was biased by pro-Russian propaganda.
I was appalled to hear what many Germans thought of the Maidan protesters in Kiev — that they were nationalist extremists and anti-Semites, that all those victims they had heard about were merely collateral damage in a legitimate government attempt to stabilize the situation.… Seguir leyendo »