A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 17

Something of a Ukrainian history lesson, using Serhii Plokhy's 2015 book The Gates of Europe, and focused on matters relative to today's war, including Ukrainian cultural development and nationalism, Russian influence, the role of Jews in this history, and even the Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Uniate Church. Oh, and Austrian Galicia too.

The 16th and 17th parts address the beginnings of the Soviet period in the 1920s in the book's 20th chapter, and then starts on the 21st chapter which covers the 1930s and mainly the Holodomor. In part 16 I also address the reason why this history regarding Ukrainian nationalism (particularly far western Ukraine, Galicia and also Volhynia) and the Ukrainian Ashkenazim is so important in evaluating war Ukraine today, by playing some of the recent Gray Zone interview with Prof. Richard Sakwa where he discusses Ukrainian "ultra-nationalism" and the country's failed Jewish president (avoiding that label of course). I also touch on the cited Russian civil/human rights organization Memorial, shut down by the Putin gov't, which turns out to be a Jewish fifth column - what a shock...