In this paper, the Ukrainian political scientist and thinker explains how the Russian imperial vision of Ukraine has penetrated deep into Western society, how its most toxic myths and clichés have been uncritically accepted and normalized, and how this has helped to spread the rhetoric of Russian propaganda around the world for years, and even recently. The reality on the ground of the war has helped to deconstruct these myths, but Ukrainian intellectuals and their Western colleagues must continue this work.
The Toxic Spell of “Imperial Knowledge”
