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The Cacophony of Donbas: I watched this intense documentary montage film on the Ukrainian east last night.Permalink On twitter.com
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Donbas was lionized by Soviet propaganda as a place of first proletarian self-sacrifice, then of proletarians living in luxury.Permalink On twitter.com
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A Donbas miner became a global symbol of “volunteer“ overproduction called “shock work“ and was celebrated by the state but died estranged from everyone he knew.Permalink On twitter.com
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In 1989, it became the epicenter of mass miners' strikes that undergirded national independence in 1990. The shock therapy capitalism that followed was no less surreal.Permalink On twitter.com
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Finally, Donbas is the center of a Russia-armed and staffed separatist effort since 2014, which, as traumatic testimony reveals, reprises the collective bullying of the collectivization and de-kulakization era.On twitter.com
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I think few of us have fully reckoned either with the Soviet era or the post-Soviet crash capitalism. Also, people who embrace workers' revolt in the West speak far too little of the centrality of workers to the 1968, 1981, 1989 uprisings inside the Soviet bloc.Permalink On twitter.com
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The 61-minute documentary is streaming on the Ukrainian film website TAKMEDIA. CW: testimonial accounts of torture and sexual violence in the last 15 minutes or so. takflix.com/en/films/donbas-cacaphonyPermalink On twitter.com
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Fascinating prose about the same history, plus more on the Maidan to Donbas transition. e-flux.com/journal/56/60331/maidan-and-beyond-part-ii-the-cacophony-of-donbas/Permalink On twitter.com