JP Himka and the Rest of Ukrainian History: Poland, Language and Identity - part 7

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.

In parts 7 and 8 I continue with the same Himka video on cultural history, covering the nature of the Ukrainian language vis-a-vis Polish and Russian and the rise of national identity. Then I take his conclusion on the Russian war as an attack on that identity and compare it to a parallel conclusion recently expressed by Judeo-propagandist historian Timothy Snyder, and then show where they completely part company, which is on the extent of OUN-based nationalist feeling in Ukraine today.