A Nation Dreams to Survive

Imaginary Worlds

Eric Molinsky

Arts, Science Fiction, Fiction, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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As we near the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I check in with the Ukrainian writers I interviewed for my 2022 episode A Nation Dreams of Itself. Maria Galina tells me about the difficulties of trying to create during wartime. Svitlana Taratorina and Volodymyr Arenev talk about why writing isn’t just a form of therapy or escapism, but it’s also a patriotic duty to keep Ukrainian culture alive in a war that’s also being fought in libraries, bookstores and publishing houses. Borys Sydiuk talks about why science fiction is making a comeback over fantasy during the war. And I talk with Max Kidruk, the new breakout star in the Ukrainian sci-fi scene. You can watch Svitlana’s YouTube channel Fantastic Talks at: https://www.youtube.com/@fanttalks Ukrainian Red Cross: https://donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/donate/~my-donation?_cv=1 Mercy Corps: https://www.mercycorps.org/donate/crisis-ukraine-give-now International Medical Corps: https://give.internationalmedicalcorps.org/page/99837/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=DP~UA22~DPHHU2202 Save the Children: https://support.savethechildren.org/site/Donation2?df_id=5751&mfc_pref=T&5751.donation=form1 This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp and Bombas. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you’re interested in advertising on Imaginary Worlds, you can contact them here or email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	You're listening to Imaginary Worlds. I'll show about how we create them and why we suspend
0:34.5	our disbelief.
0:35.6	American Winsky. We are coming up on the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
0:43.8	And shortly after the war started last year, I did an episode called A Nation Dreams of
0:48.3	itself, where I spoke with Ukrainian sci-fi and fantasy writers. During the course of
0:54.4	the war, I've continued to check up on them through social media, but I wanted to talk
0:58.9	with them to see how they're doing. I was curious if they've been able to write this
1:03.6	year, and how does living through a war affect their creativity? What kind of stories are
1:09.7	they telling?
1:10.9	If you didn't hear the episode from last year, here's a quick historical recap. When
1:15.8	Ukraine was behind the Iron Curtain, most books were published in Russian. And the Soviet
1:20.9	publishers preferred science fiction over fantasy. After the Cold War ended, publishers in
1:26.7	Ukraine kept publishing books in Russian because a lot of Ukrainian speak Russian, and they
1:32.2	could sell those books to Russian speakers throughout the former Soviet Union. But as
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