‘We live in a closet stuffed with skeletons’
Maxim Trudolyubov on how Russians’ inability to condemn the crimes of the past has led them to war Laski Diffusion / Getty ImagesVorkutlag. Vorkuta, Komi Republic, 1945. Nearly six weeks ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. From that moment, the history of the Russian state’s past crimes ceased to be history, argues Meduza’s Ideas editor, Maxim Trudolyubov.