I hope you value it as much as I did!
Banosh sounds interesting - I think Matios mentions it in the book - I have a recipe with polenta (I think traditionally it might not be polenta exactly but something similar?) that I need to make one day, it looks really easy.
Thanks for sharing. This sounds like a great episode, looking forward to listening to it. There are some really great Ukrainian artists - I know nowhere near as many as I should but I posted on Mastodon about Prymachenko who has some really impressive pieces.
And also Lyubov Panchenko, whose work just spoke to me so strongly - I really don't understand how she is not considered among the world greats of 20th century art, just absolutely incredible stuff (and from whose work I took my avatar image).
That makes sense. The other group seems quite focused on the war commentary type stuff too - stuff I find interesting and important too, but does mean there's not a 100% overlap with the intentions here.
Hmm. What do you think about it?
On the one hand, I have enjoyed working with you both and doing what little I can to help this group grow.
But in general I'm in favour of not splitting communities - the more people in one place, the more power there is?
It's an interesting article.
I do have some criticisms about how inevitable he portrays this stuff - I'm not sure we can describe any outcome as being 'factually' more likely, considering we don't even know when the war will end nor what shape the peace will take. And the idea that Ukraine will simultaneously be taken over by a clique of oligarchs and western corporations seems a little contradictory - are they oligarchs or not?
(And maybe an interesting observation that he describes the second world war as having one aggressor when it started, when in fact there were two - then as now, far right and far left were closely linked)
But in general he's right that the peace needs considering carefully, not only the war. In any war there is always a risk of what will come after - but these discussions absolutely need to be carried out by Ukrainians, for Ukrainians.
And he's also spot on about the need to fight the extremists at both ends of the spectrum - all extremists need opposing. I've been so disappointed by so many on the left who claim to fight for the rights of working people, but only when it suits them. Like, really quite disheartened when people I previously respected turned out to be supportive of genocide ๐
Thanks for sharing it.