“The small nation is one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear, and it knows it.”— Czech-born French novelist and short-story writer Milan Kundera, A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe, translated by Linda Asher (2023)
That definition applies to Ukraine—and, indeed, any country in the vicinity of Russia, in case Vladimir Putin’s invasion and human-rights violations go unchecked.
(The image of Milan
Kundera accompanying this post was taken in 1980 by Elisa Cabot.)
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