And, 30 years later, a response to #Kundera by #Ukrainian intellectual Mykola #Riabchuk: "Shifting the Wall Further East."
https://www.aspen.review/article/2021/shifting-wall-east-kunderas-tragedy-central-europe-three-decades-later/

Ryabchuk points out that Kundera's setting "Western" European traditions against "Eastern" non-European ones - pushed nations further east outside the consciousness of Europeans, where they were left to fend for themselves against an #Russian will to dominate.
#CentralEurope #CentralEasternEurope #Ukraine