pn873. Another, Oblique, Perspective on the Ukraine-Russia War

Steven and the Governor-General Patsy Reddy

My friend Steven and I were at Wellington Teachers' College together in the late 1950s. I think his perpective on the Russia-Ukraine war is important.  This is what he wrote to me:

"My letter is published in this week's Listener. I had and have the Ukrainian crisis on my mind and wrote this letter in a hurry. People here can afford to take a simplistic view of events far away, ignoring historical and geopolitical reality. The reward of old age is that I have seen all this before, 'There is nothing new under the sun'"

His NZ Listener letter reads:

Subject: Putin and Khrushchev  To: <listenerletters@aremedia.co.nz>

Putin and Khrushchev, Ukraine and Hungary, 2022 and 1956,  I can't help but see parallels.