On the Fourth Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Invasion of Ukraine by Russia
Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of the eruption of the inhuman conflagration in Ukraine at the heart of Europe. A reminder, as if we needed it after World War II, of how little does humanity learn from history apart from the fact it repeats itself and that humanity does not learn from the past. I watched once again on the BBC the deeply moving funeral of the poisoned Alexei Navalny and the courage of those who decided to join the endless queue and attend his burial. The cycles of historical inhumanity endlessly repeat themselves. The music of Chopin and the historical context in which it was composed is hauntingly topical on his birthday, the composer of the profound melancholy of lost freedom. The situation is worse now with the mindless conflagration in the Middle East and Sudan. Our leaders in every country have lost moral direction and sense of truth. How I yearn for a man of Paderewski's charisma and his projection of the image of a moral beacon in the world. Rather than ad...