Igort's anti-Russian comic book accomplishes nothing and is worth little

Arnold Buckley
  A grim dark comic book on Ukraine is the brainchild of Igor Tuveri who goes by the comic pen name of Igort. He spent two years in Ukraine and Russia and what he developed what the shit called "The Ukraine and Russian Notebooks and this comic book is a train wreck. somehow on this trip and stay in these countries Igort produced a graphics book examining two dark events in the history that intertwined these two countries.

 Igort recalls the Ukraine famine from some people with weird names who use family recollections of the difficult times and mass starving of people in this time period supposedly of Joseph Stalin and a plan to quell growing Ukraine nationalism and independence spirit. I guess it didn't dwell on Igort that landowners refusal to help out in the mass industrialization to meet the Nazi threat was seen as insidious and the famine could really be looked at a continuation to the civil war that never really ended against the communist regime. Igort basically just tells a bunch of depressing stories of families that struggled under soviet control when Germany was trying to conquer the region and have all eastern Slavs exterminated as were many of Europeans Jews. Little though is recollected of German involvement and Igort seems to put blame on all of the misery towards the soviet rule. His drawings are  both crude, dark, and unimaginative often compelling a horror genre of draw based on the darkest moments of this land. This should not be surprising as Igort seems to be still fighting a personal crusade against the Russian bear and like any war there usually are two-sides-something obviously lacking in his portrayal of the famine and the two Chechen-Russian wars. The bitter aspect  of the Russian revolution and the class war was still in effect during this time period never mind the foreign supported civil war Russia faced along with a world-wide depression. That life would be difficult and many people starved in Ukraine in the thirties by people who had too many kids should not be so surprising and even a topic of a graphics book to this day.

Igort pays a disturbing view of a government-sanctioned famine which by some estimates killed seven million people but in reality who really knows and more likely their deaths were from agricultural collapse and major industrialization that was the desperate attempt by Stalin to keep up with the Nazi's.  Igort is an Italian that seems to have issues with Russians still smarting form the Orthodox break up with Rome like in 1044 or something. The second part of his book covers the brutal Chechen war and again Tuveri tries to portray Russians enemies as saints. Instead of saints though Russia has been combatting brutal rural Muslims never accepting of any rule aside from Sharia and the perspective of the slaying of human rights activist and pro-Chechen writer Anna Politkovskaya is covered. The activist was a major thorn on the side of Vladimir Putin and her death has been a rallying cry for Western journalists and dweeb comics like Igort who can't seem to understand that Russian wants to control orders within their borders not unlike Americans, the French, British, and just about every other empire. I'm sure somewhere n Igort's mind the possibility of a comic book looking back at the Roman empire may be coming to fruition.