Last week, the Russian occupation court of Crimea sentenced my friend Nariman Dzhelal to 17 years in prison. Ukrainian deputy director general of the Ukrainian Institute and co-founder of CrimeaSOS Photograph: Crimean House Alim Aliev: ‘The written word is an island of freedom in the storm of repression’ Literature, among other things, provides us with an opportunity to find these words. Before being invincible on the battlefield, you have to find the words to justify your future victory. But no one can bear this if he does not understand the meaning of his resistance. They say that wars are won by those who stand on the battlefield under heavy artillery fire and do not retreat. But those who defend themselves have to search for the meaning of their resistance every single day. That’s why there is no excuse for someone who starts an aggressive war. In a way, war and violence are the pure absence of meaning. When there is a war and you lose something valuable, if not everything valuable, you might think that everything is meaningless. When there is a war, you desperately need both. It is difficult to write, to think and to dream when a missile hits the very heart of your reality.īut literature is still important. The reality of war is something that can deprive you of the most important things – your life, your time and your capacity to think. A number of readers claim that they cannot read. War takes away the ability to speak from many.
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