JP Himka and the Rest of Ukrainian History: The Nationalist Asskole? - part 5

In this series of videos on Ukraine, I look into parts of its history that were deemphisized, misrepresented or deleted entirely in Plokhy's book, using videos of John-Paul Himka, professor of Ukrainian history from the Univ of Alberta. Himka's history is definitely mainstream, but, perhaps a product of his US midwestern/Canadian roots, his rather naive innocence regarding what can be mentioned and what can't in today's Holocausted politically-correct America makes him a useful guide through matters involving western Ukraine as the source of much of the country's nationalist and Jewish activism among other things. Given today's Zelensky-Kolomoisky-Azov Battalion-Putin Jewish-neonazi connections and narrative-building battle on both sides, it's an important window into what is really going on in Ukraine (and Washington and Moscow) today.

Having covered the Jewish side of the WWII/Holocaust issue (sort of) related to Himka's latest book, in this vid I give the nationalist side a chance to respond. But somehow it still feels like the Jewish side...