The Eastern Front

Seeing Holodomor in Russia's War against Ukraine (with Benjamin Wittes)


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Giselle, Iulia, and Dalibor are joined by Benjamin Wittes from AEI's next-door-neighbor, The Brookings Institution, where he is a Senior Fellow for Governance Studies and Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare. Ben Wittes also orchestrates pro-Ukrainian demonstrations around Washington D.C. in symbolic locations to raise awareness about Russia's war against Ukraine. He joins Eastern Front to recall his latest demonstration: screening, through a projector, the film "Mr. Jones" on the walls of the Russian Embassy in D.C.'s press office. "Mr. Jones" fictionalizes the true story of a journalist who exposed Stalin's forced famine on Ukraine, "Holodomor," in the 1930s which killed millions of people in Ukraine. Further, Ben Wittes compares the 1930s Holodomor to Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine and discusses the importance of exposing Russian brutality through activism.

Show notes: "Film about courageous Welsh journalist to be screened onto Russian Embassy"; "Mr. Jones" livestream with Agniezska Holland (director of "Mr. Jones")

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