The last year has been a difficult and conflictual one in Ukraine. It seems that war has become a way of life and thinking. It reanimates conflicts, exposes people’s feelings, opens old wounds, provokes intolerance and the search for an enemy, embitters, and most importantly, it makes people believe that there are simple solutions to complex issues; everything seems to be divided into two poles: black and white, our own and others’. In this wave of polarized thinking, society wants maximum clarity and certainty. Any secrets, ambiguities and mistakes, negligence and even silence that can be interpreted in different ways cause irritation and suspicion in the public mind. Everything must serve survival, and everyone must be together for the sake of the common victory.
Society reacts rather ambiguously to the presence of anything Russian in the country’s public space. The Russian language becomes a trigger and is labelled as a threat when it is…
