Over the past two years or so, I have developed a keen awareness of the wounded pride, historical revisionism and backward rightwing nationalism which characterizes swathes of Eastern European society. I didn’t develop my views by actively seeking out such elements, but rather they found me. Let me briefly back up and explain. In 2014, I traveled to Kiev to write a series of articles about the post-Maidan milieu in Ukraine [for a photo archive, click here]. Through my reporting, I hoped to shed light and draw attention to political forces on the ground which are trying to …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
