Letters

 Russian Authors The Russian invasion of Ukraine has drawn censure and ire around the glob. An anti-Russo tone runs through recent stories of all types. So, the same Russia that has produced, like any other, both good and bad, and produced the likes of Tolstory and Dostoevsky, is now, understandably enough, being judged by its worst, most recent moment.  An enemy today can be a friend tomorrow. Countries fall into and out of alliances.  The crazed murderous fanaticism with which the world characterized Imperial Japan, say, is quite out of place with what we now see of that country--a staunch ally and cool producer of anime and boy bands. Similarly, we would not want to judge the US civilization based on one episode in History. One is tempted to recite Vietnam as the obvious example, except that in retrospect, Vietnam seems less the disaster it was portrayed. It did give us the concept of PTSD, and also weakened the Soviet Union and other communist countries to the point they could not