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23/08/2020

Futile Political Gestures: Futile Engagements

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

A series of public events and conference meetings to remember and critically appraise the Soviet Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 struck a pessimistic tone. Having gathered in central Moscow in May 2018, dissidents and witnesses recalled a sense of futility in opposing a cruel machinery of the repressive state. Previously in a skype interview,Read more