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Lev Golinkin

Lev Golinkin

Lev Golinkin is the author of "A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka," Amazon’s Debut of the Month, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program selection, and winner of the Premio Salerno Libro d’Europa. A graduate of Boston College, Golinkin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His writing on the Ukraine crisis, Russia, the far right, and immigrant and refugee identity has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, NBC, The Boston Globe, Politico Europe and Time.com, among others.

Volodymyr Kubijovych, circled, gives a Nazi salute at an SS Galichina recruitment ceremony in 1943. An endowment at the University of Alberta honors Kubijovych. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy TSDKFFA via U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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Canadian officials are ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler — but it didn’t come from nowhere

Beth HarpazLev Golinkin by Beth Harpaz and Lev Golinkin October 3, 2023October 3, 2023

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Canadian officials have spent the past week apologizing for […]

Veterans of the Azov battalion march beneath flags bearing the Nazi wolfsangel symbol in Kyiv in 2019. (Photo/Wikimedia-Goo3 CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Why did Stanford students host a group of Ukrainian neo-Nazis?

Lev Golinkin by Lev Golinkin July 6, 2023August 3, 2023

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