Europe’s Internal De-colonisation

Kundera’s passing inspires us to re-examine his vision of Europe

27 July 2023

Volodymyr Yermolenko

Future of Ukraine Fellow

Russia’s war on Ukraine will determine if colonisation by force belongs to the past or the future. If Russia wins, we must say farewell to Kundera’s idea of building maximum diversity in minimum space.

Milan Kundera passed away and invites us, again, to rethink his legacy.

His famous essay, “The Tragedy of Central Europe” is a frequent topic of reflection for us today. As a Ukrainian philosopher, I think it is also a topic of thinking in light of the Russian genocidal war against Ukraine.

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Volodymyr Yermolenko

Future of Ukraine Fellow

Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher, journalist and writer. He is the President of PEN Ukraine and the current Analytics director at Internews Ukraine, one of the largest and oldest Ukrainian media NGOs. He is also the Editor-in-chief of UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project in English about Ukraine and an Associate professor at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He has been published in numerous outlets, such as The Economist, Le Monde, Financial Times, New York Times, and Newsweek.

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