“After three years in Kyiv, Tymoshenko says his parents have recently returned to their home village outside Nikopol, another frontline city under regular artillery and drone fire. He grew up there in the countryside “playing with sticks”, before moving to Kyiv to study political science.
The authors he read – Plato and Aristotle – do not reflect the non-ideal world today, a place of ‘brute power and money’. He believes there will not be much to laugh about when the war finally ends: “I’m sure Ukraine will win and Russia will burn. But we’ve lost so many people. You can’t imagine Victory Day as ‘Wow!’.”
In the meantime, he suggests things are looking up for Ukrainian female comedians. ‘We will only have female ones because we men will all have died,’ he says blackly.“
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