Day 429
The dragons are back
In the black mountains, a five-years walk away, there is a giant cave. Inside there is a book, a pleading book, written almost to the end. No one touches it, but page after page is added to those already written, added every day, about all the crimes of criminals, all the misfortunes of those suffering in vain. — Дракон (Evgeny Schwartz)
It turns out that on February 23, 2022 The Economist wrote about the play, probably after reading my annodated translation of practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov’s diatribe on Echo Moscow1. (That post was very popular. The radio station has, er, since changed hands and the YouTube link has been taken down or deleted).
That’s too bad, because I wanted to re-listen to the broadcast because I remember Pastukhov saying that corrupting citizens to collaborate in their own oppression is a problem for Ukraine, as well as for Russia. The arrest of Roman Chervinsky on April 25 is one example2. There are many others3.
Mikhail Khodorko…
