Brodsky once

“Kundera is churl. Stupid Czech churl”: #Brodsky once insulted. The ruzzian poet could not forgive the Czech writer for his assumptions: in one of his essays, #Kundera expressed the view that Russian tanks on the streets of Prague in 1968 are deeply connected with #ruzzianCulture.

During the Soviet occupation, Milan Kundera drove past these tanks in his car. His car was stopped and searched. The officer who gave the order then asked Kundera how he felt: “His question was neither malicious nor ironic,” Kundera recalls. “We love you Czechs. We love you.”

This sadistic ruzzian koan shocked the writer. He saw in it obvious parallels with the world of #Dostoevsky “with his rebellious gestures, dirty inversion and aggressive sentimentality.”

I remembered this story while reading a “memo” to a Ukrainian schoolboy left by a ruzzian soldier, written in chalk on the blackboard of a looted school in Katyuzhanka. I was almost vomited by this text: “Good luck in your studies! .. Children, sorry for the mess … Ukraine and Russia are one people. Peace be upon you brothers and sisters.”

(In the photo: an inscription on the wall during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia: “Beware of Russian murderers. They steal watches and radios.” Wenceslas Square. Prague. Czechoslovakia. August 1968)