‘Last Men in Aleppo’ is a Striking Piece of Anti-Russian Agitprop

“Everything we’ve experienced had killed us. We’re the living dead.” The words are those of a relief worker in Douma, site of both the 2012 Battle of Douma and the 2015 Douma massacre. I found it in a collection put together by Wendy Pearlmam called “We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled: Voices from Syria.” The kind of total despair voiced in the book fi…