In very short, our event aims to enhance the understanding of resistance and to raise the question of the connection of resistance with the national question.

Not to spill German Blood: Austria 1938. – Nation, military resistance and freedom: Ukraine 2022.

Welcome by Dr. Emil Brix, Director of Vienna School of International Studies (requested)

Oksana Sabuschko:
Totalitarianism in the 21st Century: How Is Resistance Possible?

Martin Malek:
The Jansa-Plan and lessons to draw from

Konstantin Kaiser:
About antinationalism: Pan-Slavism and Pan-Germanism

OKSANA SABUSCHKO speaks about the reality of the “post-information society” using Russian hybrid war against Ukraine as a case study, and share Ukrainian experience of building up a resilient society.

Oksana Sabuschko also knows “how much Austria is intoxicated with the Russian money” and has some stories to drop on that occasion.

Duration: 35 minutes.

MARTIN MALEK, Austrian independent political scientist and author of the book “Das Bundesheer steht bereit” on the Jansa-Plan, New Academic Press 2025. He will speak about the Plan and the lectures we could draw from it today.

Alfed Jansa, born in Iwano-Frankiwsk, was the chief of general staff who had developped a plan to defend Austria many years before the invasion. He was convinced that Nazi-Germany would attack due to his personal experiences with the aggressive attitude of German officers.

Duration: 10 minutes.

KONSTANTIN KAISER, poet, researcher on exile, man of the Enlightenment, founder of the Association for the promotion and research of anti-fascist literature speaks about Pan-Slawism, Pan-Germanism and antinationalism.

Duration: 8 minutes.

Followed by a discussion at the podium for about 25 minutes.

Facilitator: Sonja Pleßl, translator and publicist, Zwischenwelt international

Duration: about 1,5 hours.

Event in English.

Booktable by Baruch Pomper, Buchhandlung analog