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The Nobel Prize winner and the author is a profoundly tragic figure. Unfortunately the English language Wikipedia article on her doesn't begin to describe the l
by osipov 11y ago
The Nobel Prize winner and the author is a profoundly tragic figure. Unfortunately the English language Wikipedia article on her doesn't begin to describe the level of suffering and pain that her family has experienced and that shaped her childhood.
Unfortunately the suffering she went through caused her to have a very negative bias towards the outside world. Her writings are the epitome of depression: imagine a writer describing San Francisco by focusing just on the parts of the Tenderloin district covered in piss. That is pretty much her unique viewpoint on the world and Russia in particular.
Her family has reasons to have gripes against Russians, given that her parents were Ukrainian and Belorussian minorities who suffered disproportionally when they tried to establish independent states. So take her speeches and her writing with a generous dose of salt. She is well known for her agenda and her unhealthy worldview.
- conistonwater 11y agoThat's a pretty ridiculous ad hominem. You don't seem to even try to engage with the substance of what she's saying.
- osipov 11y agoNonsense. My entire argument is about her writing and how it was shaped by her childhood experiences.
- smikhanov 11y agoWhile being factually true, that's an incredibly shallow view of her work. It's the same as linking all your sexual preferences to (un)resolved Oedipus complex from your childhood -- it's most likely to be true, but doesn't give you any useful insight into the subject matter.
- osipov 11y ago>“my politics are closest to that of The Economist newspaper: mildly Libertarian, fiscally conservative, socially liberal where it’s practical and pragmatic, cautiously globalist”. now everything falls into place: just like The Economist you are also virulently Russophobic
- smikhanov 11y agoIt looks like we're talking about different magazines called The Economist, but I appreciate your interest anyways.
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