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Eugene Volokh

"We Will Never Be Brothers"

I came across this poem yesterday; it was written in 2014 by Ukrainian Anastasia Dmitruk, reacting to the Russian invasion of Crimea. As I understand it, it prompted many pro-Russian poems in response; regardless of what you think of their ideological merits, it seems to me a sign of a lively poetic culture.

But whatever arguments there might have been with it at the time, its prophecy has now been entirely fulfilled. An invasion aimed, at least ostensibly, at the union of closely related peoples has, I expect, deeply estranged them, at least for my lifetime and probably longer. The recently created video, which I include above, captures the message well.

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