<
https://theconversation.com/if-we-stop-communicating-putin-wins-propaganda-wins-how-a-norwegian-organisation-is-supporting-russian-protest-art-186911>
"As an international student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow in 2012, I
remember studying
Rekviem (requiem) by Russian poet Anna Ahkmatova, an elegy
she penned in secret as a tribute to the countless victims of Stalin’s
murderous purges.
Akhmatova’s writing revived the atrocities, delivering their darkness into the
light.
Her words spoke of constant fear permeating lives; of distrust, anxiety and
betrayal; of the secret police arriving to drag you or your family away.
To avoid detection and retribution, Ahkmatova whispered the poem to her friends
who committed it to memory. She burned the incriminating scraps of paper.
In the first four-and-a-half months following Putin’s attack against Ukraine,
over 13,000 anti-war protesters were detained in Russia.
Some estimates are that hundreds of thousands fled Russia in early 2022, among
them thousands of artists who no longer felt safe in the climate of increasing
censorship.
Some of these artists have found themselves in Kirkenes, a small Norwegian town
15 kilometres from the Russian border."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
