Can I recommend that followers of Prof. Snyder read Bloodlands in its entirety? I did on someone else’s recommendation, and it is the best history of what WWII was like on the ground in Europe that I have read.
"Although Russia tries to claim the suffering and the victory for itself today, inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine were greater risk of death than inhabitants of Soviet Russia. For that matter, more Ukrainians died fighting the Germans than Americans, British, and French taken together."
Ukrainians are well aware of their losses during the wars and the horrors foisted upon them by the savagery of both Nazis and Russians. They get their resolve to fight the current war knowing what they have already been through and will not suffer again. Dr.Snyder's concerned research and assistance are helping to avoid some of the egregious errors of the past.
I haven’t read the book yet, but I notice in this preamble no mention of the absolute, unequivocal savagery of the Ukrainians and Poles towards the Jewish citizens of their countries.
Can I recommend that followers of Prof. Snyder read Bloodlands in its entirety? I did on someone else’s recommendation, and it is the best history of what WWII was like on the ground in Europe that I have read.
"Although Russia tries to claim the suffering and the victory for itself today, inhabitants of Soviet Ukraine were greater risk of death than inhabitants of Soviet Russia. For that matter, more Ukrainians died fighting the Germans than Americans, British, and French taken together."
Ukrainians are well aware of their losses during the wars and the horrors foisted upon them by the savagery of both Nazis and Russians. They get their resolve to fight the current war knowing what they have already been through and will not suffer again. Dr.Snyder's concerned research and assistance are helping to avoid some of the egregious errors of the past.
I haven’t read the book yet, but I notice in this preamble no mention of the absolute, unequivocal savagery of the Ukrainians and Poles towards the Jewish citizens of their countries.
Ukranian Chant Shchedryk by Mykola Leontovych - Patrick Dexter Cello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBdcsEMRRE