#post-communist-transition

#post-communist-transition

Vance beseeched a crowd in Budapest, asking, 'Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy? Will you stand for western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth and for the god of our fathers?'

The narratives they offer through culture are therefore some of the clearest expressions of how they see their role in a wartime country. This year, Moscow has hosted two major government-backed awards ceremonies one for books, one for films. In both cases, the organisers played it safe, repeating familiar themes, many of them rooted in Soviet-era cultural and wartime mythology. Prizes went largely to people within the same orbit in most cases, the families of well-known Soviet-era cultural icons.