The Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich and the Peruvian Mario Vargas LlosaNobel Prize for Literature 2015 and 2010, respectively, warned against the “new Russian fascism” and the “intolerable authoritarianism” represented by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
“We are witnessing the birth of a new fascism,” Alexievich assured, in a virtual intervention before the concentration of hundreds of people in support of Ukraine convened this Sunday in Berlin.
Vargas Llosa addressed the audience in a recorded message, in which he congratulated the “Ukrainian resistance” and called for mobilization against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The concentration in solidarity with Ukraine took place in the central Bebelplatz in Berlin, next to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden -national opera- and a few blocks from the Russian embassy, a place where demonstrations against the invasion take place almost daily.
At the concentration, speeches by the British Timothy Garten Ash were heard, over the auditorium or through recorded messages or by zoom, who asked for full support for the request of the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, to offer his country a clear perspective of entry in the European Union (EU).
Other speakers, such as the singer-songwriter and former dissident in times of communist Germany Wolf Biermann called for declaring the no-fly zone that Zelenski claims and against what he called a “false concept of pacifism.”
The event closed with an excerpt from Zelensky’s recorded message to Europeans, followed by the Ukrainian anthem, sung on stage by the Volny choir.
Source: Gestion
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