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LudwigF's avatar

I think ‘Tatars’ rather than ‘Tartars’, which is a kind of fishy mayonnaise.

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Events in Ukraine's avatar

indeed. In Russian it is Tatar, which is what I am used to

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AG's avatar

Superb article. Thank you 🙏

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Events in Ukraine's avatar

Thank you1

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Herakles-Vajrapani's avatar

''Ulyanov, whose book will be the topic of a future post, argues that the ‘roots of Ukrainian separatism’ (the title of his cult classic 1958 book, published while an exiled Yale professor)..''

I couldn't help but chuckle when reading that, given Yale's current intellectual 'superstar'. That college sure has weird tastes in its intellectual rosters...

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