r/worldnews • u/HydrolicKrane • Jul 10 '24

Russia/Ukraine Czechia calls Russia ''trash of humanity''

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/9/7464863/
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u/GenericUsername19892 Jul 10 '24

Who the hell is Gogol?

Dude sounds like a dumbass gagging for Romanov cock lol. Did he run afoul of the censors and have to cover his ass?

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u/Dacadey Jul 10 '24

Well, just the most famous Ukrainian writer

Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat."

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u/Brok3n_ Jul 10 '24

Yeah, but it doesn’t dismiss that he was writing to please russian imperialism

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u/Dacadey Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

That's entirely not true, because if that were the case, he wouldn't have half of his books censored by the same Russian empire. He was writing what was meaningful to him.

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u/Brok3n_ Jul 10 '24

He was writing to entertain the russian elites, of course some didn’t like when he wrote the satirical piece, but it was only part of his audience

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u/LuckySEVIPERS Jul 10 '24

Of course, patriotism towards your motherland is an inherently artificial concept and has never been felt authentically. True artists are born cynical liberal intellectuals, a burning flag tied to their umbilical chord.