2023-10-29 10:52:46
10:30 a.m.: In Russia, the light of a George-Orwell library still shines
From the shelves of the library, the old lady grabs books whose place she naturally knows. Orwell, Sorokin, Dostoyevsky. Authors who, for her, help to penetrate the darkness of contemporary Russia. In the room, a computer, a few hundred books and the smell of perfumed oil, the one worn by Alexandra Karaseva, the head of the George Orwell library in Ivanovo, an industrial city five hours’ drive from Moscow.
By handling the works, Alexandra Karasseva, 67, talks about their power: “Books serve to see Man, even in the enemy, and to reject any form of dehumanization. » A local entrepreneur and opponent of the conflict in Ukraine, Dmitri Siline, opened the premises in July 2022 with the idea of providing free thinking tools to combat propaganda, censorship and the prevailing climate of manipulation.
Like so many others, he fled Russia shortly after, for fear of ending up in prison for his positions. But its small library, located on the ground floor of a building with broken walls and roof, continues to exist.
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