Boris Groys on the ethnicization of communisim

Philosopher Boris Groys tells Sonja Zekri what the dispute about the Soviet memorials in Eastern European countries is all about: "The whole conflict is related to a growing nationalism in all the Eastern European countries. In Estonia and Poland, that is why the communist past is dragged in. It is seen as an occupation by Russia. Everything is put in terms of an ethnic conflict between Estonians and Russians. I don't agree with this view of history, but that's how it is. And the further this ethnicisation of communism goes, most of it via self-exculpation, the more tensions we can expect."

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