The writer Wladimir Kaminer (54) thinks back to the time a few weeks ago with nostalgia.
“How I would like to turn back time so that everything would be the way it was before,” Kaminer wrote on Facebook on Saturday. “The Bundeswehr generals and nuclear missile experts were not on the talk shows, but virologists. Hello virologists! Please come back! We want to be better educated about viruses, not nuclear missiles.”
But the world has changed rapidly. Since the beginning of the Russian attack on Ukraine, the news has become increasingly bizarre, Kaminer wrote, referring to the rumor mill and the constant stream of boycotts.
His observation: “Here in Berlin, people of all nationalities help to house those who have fled from the war, to collect and transport humanitarian goods. Germans, Russians, Ukrainians all lend a hand and are not asked for their passports.”
The bestselling author (“Russendisko”) was born in Moscow and has lived in Berlin for a long time.
This war is “not a battle of peoples, but of freedom against slavery, of dark archaism against the modern world. The Ukrainians are also fighting for the Russians, for the freedom of all of us”.
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Kaminer continued: “We must do everything we can to support them, care for those who have fled and are injured, do not do business with Putin’s regime, and you will see that the Russians are not all that different from other peoples. They don’t get up from the sofa just for freedom, they go through the roof for sausages.”