{"id":29123,"date":"2024-06-26T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/?p=29123"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T20:42:25","slug":"adrian-karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/en\/adrian-karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Karatnycky: When Ukraine was invisible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29124\" src=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-1024x644.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-500x315.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-1536x966.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-2048x1288.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-700x440.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ukrainianjewishencounter.org\/media\/karatnycky-when-ukraine-was-invisible-350x220.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-paragraph\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">The West long accepted the Soviet narrative that the country was indistinct. Our understanding of its culture and people is still incomplete.<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">Ukraine has never received as much attention as it does today. A few decades ago, the nation and its people were largely invisible, ignored by much of the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">The Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote in 1983 that \u201cone of the great European nations is slowly disappearing .\u00a0.\u00a0. without the world realizing it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-k3zb6l-paragraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">Read more @<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/when-ukraine-was-invisible-history-europe-russia-456305a6?st=ieaau64cd6dv4d4&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0861a6;\"><strong>Related<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Council\u2019s Eurasia Center hosted an event on 12 June 2024 to launch the book <em>Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia<\/em> with author Adrian Karatnycky, in conversation with <em>The Atlantic's<\/em> David Frum. Mr. Karatnycky is a Board Member of the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Book launch | &quot;Battleground Ukraine: From Independence to the War with Russia&quot;\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wue9IjIg_8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West long accepted the Soviet narrative that the country was indistinct. Our understanding of its culture and people is still incomplete.Ukraine has never received as much attention as it does today. 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