Western thinking needs to be decolonized from Russian influence

It is very strange that Western postmodernists, being able to apply their critical tools to everything in the world, are categorically unable to apply them to anything related to Russia.

This blind spot is typical of Western cultural studies, postcolonial studies, feminism, human rights in general and minority rights in particular, and the list goes on. All these very different areas of research and activism share a common blind spot. They are powerless to see anything in Russia's space.

“The whole Russian culture is one big Potemkin village, a shiny European facade, with the centuries-old oprichnina behind it”

That is why we need to "decolonize" Western thinking from the Russian imperial influence, formed by a thin layer of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and the Bolshoi Theater, under which there is a dark ocean of archaic barbarism. The whole Russian culture is one big Potemkin village, a shiny European facade, with the centuries-old oprichnina behind it.

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About the author. Valeriy Pekar, lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

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