The guest of the second episode of the Decolonisation series is Jade McGlynn, a leading British expert on Russia, memory politics, history and identity construction. She is a researcher in the War Studies department at King’s College London and the author of “Russia’s War” and “Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia”. In this episode, Jade and Anastasiia Marushevska, editor-in-chief at Ukraїner International and co-founder of PR Army, explore how Russia weaponises memory politics and what role Russian historical myths play in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

This episode delves into why Vladimir Putin’s historical distortions echo Soviet methods, how this rhetoric is exploited to justify the war crimes committed in Ukraine, and why Milan Kundera’s thesis about the kidnapped West remains unresolved. Anastasiia and Jade also examine how the Russian colonial narratives have come to dominate Western academia, unravel the myth of the great Russian culture, and discuss why Russia’s decolonisation is unattainable without further decolonising Europe.

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