Masha, however, isn’t having any of this. He compares the fact that most Ukrainians can’t name a Ukrainian playwright to the fact most Canadians can’t name a Canadian one – and decries how Chekhov and Shakespeare, boosted by Russian and British empires, are still rammed down their throats. In a conversation with Masha, he goes on a rant about how high culture can be a tool of colonialism.
