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Published · transcript-backedCynthia L. Haven: evaluation
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“Again, I think the problem is, the Russians I know, my Russian friends — they know all of this stuff, but how do you get through to the others?”
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- Cynthia L. Haven
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- 24 Aug 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How do you think Russians read Miłosz’s The Captive Mind? It must have gotten a Russian edition now. Again, I think the problem is, the Russians I know, my Russian friends — they know all of this stuff, but how do you get through to the others? How do you get through to the ones that are still casting their votes for Putin? Does the Russian intelligentsia know? I’m never quite convinced. They seem to know and not know. The ones even who move to the United States and face no censorship — a lot of them are still pro-Putin, especially if they’re not Jewish.…
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