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Levin Professor of History at Yale. Author of "Our Malady," "The Road to Unfreedom," "On Tyranny," "Black Earth," "Bloodlands," and "Reconstruction of Nations"
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Unter den Ländern die der Ukraine geholfen hat, hat Estland am meisten und Deutschland am wenigsten geholfen (im Verhältnis zum BIP).
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Proportionate to GDP, of the countries helping Ukraine, Estonia has helped Ukraine the most, Germany the least, and the US is in the middle.
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For thirty years, Germans lectured Ukrainians about fascism. When fascism actually arrived, Germans funded it, and Ukrainians died fighting it.
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"I held his hand until I realized it was over and he was starting to get cold." Careful reconstruction of murders and rapes committed by Russian soldiers in Bohdanivka, Ukraine.
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Marci’s Shore’s "Ukrainian Night," a multifocal portrait of #Ukraine’s Maidan revolution, helps to answer the questions people pose now about the 2022 Russian invasion. Just released as an audiobook.
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Putin has given an honorary title to one of the units Ukraine says slaughtered civilians in Bucha.
He thanked the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade for their "mass heroism protecting the fatherland, Russia's sovereignty, and its national interests" in Ukraine.
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Good piece by . "The scale of Soviet & Chinese supplies of heavy weaponry to the North Vietnamese dwarfs anything imaginable in Ukraine...Soviet trainers often pressed the buttons on anti-aircraft missile[s] that shot down American fighters"
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#OnTyrannyUkraineEdition
Lesson 15: Schizofascism
16: Ukraine, 1945-2005
17: The Meaning of Maidan
18: Ukraine and America
19: Empire and Integration
20: Courage
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Lesson 8: Colonists and Cossacks
9: The Beautiful Language
10: Nation as Culture and Choice
11: Brotherland
12: Communist Colonialism
13: Nazi Colonialism
14: 1938, 1939, and 1940
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#OnTyrannyUkraineEdition
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Lesson 1: Connections: Why On Tyranny
2: A Twenty-First Century Test
3: Fascist Eternity
4: The Politics of Time
5: Vikings, Khazars, and Slavs
6: Valdemar, Volodymyr, and Vladimir
7: Renaissance, Reformation, Rebellion
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Available today: I've recorded a much expanded audiobook of #OnTyranny, adding 20 new lessons on the history, ideology, and politics of Russia's war on Ukraine. From . All proceeds to humanitarian assistance in #Ukraine.
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Audiobook available today. Ukraine is a test for us all. Twenty short lectures, conversational but serious, trying to answer the big questions. Appearing as a new version of the #OnTyranny audiobook today. All proceeds to humanitarian causes in #Ukraine.
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Historian @TimothyDSnyder recorded an expanded audiobook edition of ON TYRANNY featuring 20 new lessons that answer the questions everyone is asking about Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Learn more about ON TYRANNY EXPANDED AUDIOBOOK EDITION, avail on April 19: bit.ly/3ivQhA1
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"The coincidence of the most important holiday in the Christian tradition with a war of atrocity gives an occasion to think about what Easter means, and how the life and death of Jesus has been interpreted."
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"The coincidence of the most important holiday in the Christian tradition with a war of atrocity gives an occasion to think about what Easter means, and how the life and death of Jesus has been interpreted."
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"Putin... describes Ukraine as 'anti-Russia,' though he himself has made Russia 'anti-Ukraine' or 'anti-Maidan.' His primary aim is to destroy the political alternative to his own regime that is epitomized by Ukraine, which in his mind should not exist."
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Russian murder and abduction of local Ukrainian elites today resembles Soviet and German policy during their joint occupation of Poland in 1939.
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Everywhere Russian forces are present, they target local Ukrainian elites. This is a crime against humanity in itself. As an element of "de-Ukrainization" it is genocidal.
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Open call for genocide on the flagship channel of Russian state television.
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More revolting, openly genocidal rhetoric on Russian state TV. The very idea of being Ukrainian, he says, “has to be erased once and for all.” Meanwhile, calling this a war is still punishable by years in Russian prison.
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Ukraine is a test for us all. I've recorded 20 short lectures, conversational but serious, trying to answer the big questions. Will appear as a new version of the #OnTyranny audiobook on 4/19 from . All proceeds to humanitarian causes in #Ukraine.
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"When we ask about the causes of today's war, we should not forget yesterday's lies. Yesterday's clever invention is today's article of faith."
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Russia issued a genocide handbook for its war on Ukraine.
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Ein russisches Handbuch zum Völkermord in der Ukraine.
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Ukraine is a test for us all. Twenty short lectures, conversational but serious, trying to answer the big questions. Will appear as a new version of the #OnTyranny audiobook on April 19th from . All proceeds to humanitarian causes in #Ukraine.
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I am not sure Germans have sufficiently worked through this history. 10/10
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Soviet oil also enabled Nazi Germany to undertake the air campaign known as the Battle of Britain in July 1940. 9/
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The USSR, also reinforced by economic cooperation with Nazi Germany, invaded and occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in June 1940. 8/
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Nazi Germany then invaded Denmark and Norway in April 1940 and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in May 1940. 7/
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Trade cooperation between Nazi Germany and the USSR was confirmed and extended by a new agreement on 11 February 1940. Moscow would deliver oil on a very large scale. 6/
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On 28 September 1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a Treaty on Borders and Friendship. 5/
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Both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union declared that the Polish state was artificial and carried out policies to decapitate the Polish nation. 4/
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On 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, followed by its Soviet ally on 17 September 1939. 3/
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Four days later Berlin and Moscow signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the secret protocol of which provided for the division of eastern Europe into spheres of influence. 2/
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On 19 August 1939 Stalin's Soviet Union began a new era in economic cooperation with Nazi Germany, in which Moscow would supply Berlin with oil. 1/
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Separating children from their parents, deporting them, and stripping them of their culture is genocide as defined by Article II Section E of the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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Russian Senator Lilia Gumerova is aghast that many of the Ukrainian children “from the liberated territories” don’t speak fluent Russian. She promises summer schooling to liberate their tongues. (I wish someone would liberate her and her colleagues to a war crimes tribunal.)
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. joins to react to Pres. Biden calling Vladimir Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine “genocide” for the first time: “Putin keeps delivering evidence that the intention is to make sure that there’s no Ukrainian nation.” on.msnbc.com/3rmtPhX
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Expanded edition of #OnTyranny audiobook tries to answer the big questions about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Available on April 19th from . All proceeds to humanitarian causes in #Ukraine.
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