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Almost six months have passed since the publication of my last article in La Voz de Galicia. My university routine leaves me no time to write at the pace I maintained during the first months of the war. On the eve of February 24, the day on which a year after the invasionThese are my thoughts on these 365 days.
From the beginning, I have to admit that my life has changed less than I expected. Now I live with my wife in another city and work at another university, but we are in Ukraine, in our country, we are together and I can give lectures, conduct new research projects and spend some time talking with my colleagues about literature and philosophy. In these times it is a luxury.
However, tragedy lives in us. People prefer not to talk about their feelings, but the silenced pain remains in the hearts. The absurdity of what is happening does not come to the surface, but settles deep inside, in individual and collective consciousness and unconsciousness.
I distinguish between two types of absurdity. The first absurdity is “irrational, arbitrary or crazy” reality, as the RAE dictionary explains it. Unanswered questions do not leave us alone. How can it happen in the 21st century that a little old man with a bald head takes 140 million people hostage and that these are ready to die and endure not only poverty (the Russians know how to do that very well), but also thousands of daily deaths of husbands, brothers and fathers? Or how to reconcile the two conflicting strategies of the West towards Ukraine, if until December 2022 he was financing Putin’s regime with one hand (as in the decades before the war) and with the other supplying weapons to fight against Russian troops? And why are these weapons arriving so slowly, if the allies want us to win?
It’s another absurdity heroism of Ukrainians. This is our almost Unamuno belief in victory. A year ago, nobody believed in us. Now we know. No one thought we would find the strength to resist. Many still doubt it. They are tired of the first absurdity — they want everything to end as soon as possible, even if we have to give up the territories occupied by the invaders. How absurd is this idea!
The first absurdity produces the second absurdity. Mikhail Buznik, one of the protagonists of my newspaper who lives in Moscow, asked me on the phone on Wednesday: How long will the absurdity of war last? – Let’s do the math – I answered. Divide the 400,000 Russian soldiers now in Ukraine by the 850 soldiers our military kills every day, and we have 470.58 days. “And if Putin mobilizes another million? Although we must live in absurdity for all eternity, victory will be ours.
Oleksandr Pronkevich Professor of Spanish literature at the University of Mykolaiv
Previous deliveries
September 5 Petro Mohyla University, Lomonosov and C-300 missiles
September 3 my diary
August 31 Homework for the academic year 2022-2023
August 28 Arturo Pérez-Reverte in the Ukrainian war
August 27 The rest of Independence Day
August 25 Ukrainian flag on murals
August 23 Mihail Buznik
August 22 On the eve of Independence Day
August 20 Two more bombs at Petro Mohyla University
August 18 Two rockets hit Petro Mohyla University
August 17 Asol is already second
August 16 War as everyday life
August 15 Oh my God! Did you see that?
August 14 Sadistic theater of war
August 11 “Black dot” for Petro Mohyla University
August 9 Mike Johansen
August 7 Refugee teachers
August 5 Team Shakespeare’s Passionflower
August 4 Home of Naval Officers
August 2 About a useless man
July 31 Long live the University of Cádiz!
July 29 Stories about dolls
July 27 Renaissance shot
July 26 light luggage
July 25 Film festival in the cellars
July 24 Consequences of war on the environment
July 22 saving the cat soldier
July 21 A boa and an elephant
July 19 Will Ukraine be the new Atlantis?
July 17 History of Ukraine on four maps
July 16 air terror
July 14 Masyanya. Episode 162
July 13 Natalena Koroleva, Spanish Ukrainian writer
July 12 “Ukrainer” in Spanish
July 10 David and Goliath
July 7 Why did Mariupol suffer so much?
July 6 A conversation under a biblical storm
July 5 iya kiva
4th of July Greetings from the south of Ukraine
July 3 skeletons in the closet
July 2nd Where have we come?
July 1st Saint Teresa of Avila and Ukrainian culture
June 30 Parade of the orchestra to the sound of air raid sirens
June 28 Doctor Jekyll takes off his mask
June 27 Sad end of studies this 2022
June 26 Ukraine will rebuild Europe
June 23 The night before the exam
June 22 Return to Europe
June 21 Genocide is not an informative excuse
June 20 when the fern blooms
June 18 It is not easy to talk about war
June 17 anti-war cartoons
June 16 Watching videos of my students
June 15 farewell waltz
June 12 Ukraine in the magazine TTAK
June 10 Sunflowers, a symbol of Ukraine
June 9 Is Ukraine nationalist?
June 7 War, what’s your name?
June 5 Pushkin is back
June 4 Listen to the voices of Ukraine
June 3 The summer of our victory
June 2 The art of spending Saturday in Mykolaiv
May 31 Is Russia fascist?
May 30 About church affairs
May 29 Lesya Ukraine
May 27 war and time
May 26 re-reading my journal
May 25 Moses
May 24 Goodbye Pushkin?
May 22 The tragedy of artistic Mariupol
May 21 Iván Frankó, popularizer of Spanish literature in Ukraine
May 20 Genocide in Ukraine
May 18 A soldier’s letter: “I feel happy in Mikolayev”
May 17 “Stefania”, a dedication to the mothers of the Kalush orchestra
May 16 Nostalgia
May 14 Disasters of War (21st Century Version)
May 13 My Galicia
May 12 Postponed cultural congress
May 11 Putin’s parade and rotten sturgeon
May 9 Gregorio Skovorodá
May 8 party services
May 7 Ukrainian Homeland War
May 4 Ukraine will celebrate Victory Day on May 8
May 3 The story of Victory Day
May 1st Annabel
April 30 Resurrection of Ukraine
April 29 Again about the Cervantes Institute in Moscow
April 28 Escape from the traffic zone
April 27 Picasso’s “Guernica”
April 26 Resistance to the invader, in the memes of Orthodox Easter
April 24 Book day
April 23 The tragedy of southern Ukraine
April 22 Clean Thursday
April 21 The parable of the bubbles
April 20 Holy Tuesday in Ukraine
April 19 Easter and Palm Sunday in Lviv
April 18 Nikolaev news
April 15 raging goddess
April 13 The Hobbit and Gandalf
April 12 Spring
April 11 The battle for borscht
April 10 My college at war
April 9 war folklore
April 8 Translation scandal
April 7 What is Russophobia?
April 6 I get letters all the time
April 5 Genocide and Russian culture
April 4 The fate of the Spanish-Ukrainian family
April 3: A Russian offensive on Donbas is awaited
April 2: interrupted film screening
April 1: ode to the mobile phone
March 31st: Cry and pray for Peter
March 30: How to defeat the enemy very quickly and with few casualties
March 29: March 28
March 28: Can we do it again?
March 27: The first balance of 30 days of the Russian invasion
March 26: humor in war
March 25: sentimental education
March 24: damn question
March 23: New bombings in the city of San Nicolás
March 22: Broken families left by the conflict
March 21: Imbued with a quixotic spirit
March 20: a letter from my student
March 18: I’m thinking about my university
March 17: This is how they tried to silence me with Russian pornography
March 15: Hit yours to scare others
March 14: Sunday is always Sunday
March 13: Day 15. Should the Cervantes Institute in Moscow be closed?
March 12: The role of the Hispanicists of Ukraine in the war with Russia
March 11: My meeting in Leópolis with a journalist from La Voz de Galicia
March 10: We became refugees
March 8: Last hours in the city of San Nicolás
March 7: Saint Nicholas protects him
March 6: City of Saint Nicholas
March 5: Ukraine: two literary references
March 4: Why the Blitzkrieg failed
March 3: Ukraine resists and lives
March 2: My worst fears
March 1: Swing of hopes and fears
February 28: Tanks in Mykolaiv
February 27: Pray for Kyiv
February 24: “Happy birthday Master!” (I know it may be the last in my life)
Source: La Vozde Galicia
I am Amelia James, a passionate journalist with a deep-rooted interest in current affairs. I have more than five years of experience in the media industry, working both as an author and editor for 24 Instant News. My main focus lies in international news, particularly regional conflicts and political issues around the world.
