“But There Is Truth, There Is Pride, There Is Courage”
Last week Zemfira, a prominent Russian singer who has been labeled a foreign agent and driven into exile, released a song—”Motherland”—that I found quite striking, in a brutal way. It’s about modern Russia, but it’s really about forced patriotism more generally, and indeed about forced adherence more generally. It has 1M views on YouTube, and […]