How can we stop this? We need this Deputinization, we must have this national recognition of guilt."Īlthough Shishkin does not currently reside in Russia, he told Channel 4 that he still keeps in touch with friends and family who do. And the nature of dictatorship is to have enemies and to have war. And as a result, we have now a new dictatorship. We didn't have the Nuremberg trials for the Communist Party. And you see in Russia, we didn't have the Destalinization. He went on to say, "We have very complicated history. "I feel horrible," Shishkin said, "because Russian soldiers are destroying cities and killing people and children, and I'm Russian, So, in my name, such horrible crimes are committed." In his Channel 4 interview, he further expressed his views. He has been frequently critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, having opposed the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and writing an open letter in The Guardian detailing the importance of Russian-Ukrainian solidarity. Mikhail Shishkin, whose books have won the prestigious Russian Booker Prize and the Big Book Award, spoke to U.K.'s Channel 4 about his opposition to the invasion. One of Russian's foremost contemporary authors is speaking out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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