Debt to Ukraine

On war and culture

"It's hard to crush people into one. 

Don't

            raise yourself so high. 

Do we know

            the Ukrainian night? 

No

            we do not know the Ukrainian night."

Vladimir Mayakovsky "Debt to Ukraine," 1926

Vladimir Putin believes that he can say whether or not Ukraine exists.  God has told him that Ukrainian souls are Russian.  History revealed …