Timothy Snyder Germany's Historical Responsibility For Ukraine

[@MariyaMelentyeva]

Translated into Ukrainian and Russian, this talk would make a great impact on those who can't understand English. I would have liked to share this video with my friends and students in Ukraine. Thank you so much for taking historical responsibility for Ukraine, Dr. Snyder.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

That would be great. Also, it would be great if Lier Snyder talked about historical responsibility of Ukrainian Banderas for Holocaust. See German movies when Nazionalists with Ukrainian flag on the sleeve kill Ukrainian Jews. Hi from USA.

[@Here0s0Johnny]

KZbin has an auto-translate feature where you can select Ukrainian! But I don't know how good the result is.

[@Slavdya]

@@Here0s0Johnny Automatic translation gives a sufficiently high-quality translation. I know that KZbin loves the Russian language and has invested a lot in AI translation. Unlike the Ukrainian language, the translation into which from English is terrible. But here it is of sufficient quality. Maybe KZbin has come to its senses.

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING.In fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@mishaknopkin2199]

@@simonpeterson3326 Simon says BS 😁😁

[@vladyslavkret2856]

Thank you. Wish there were more views. We can see now how the German policy in 2022 is shaped by all the points mentioned here.

[@yevheniiplakhotniuk866]

Wow! This is a must watch lecture for any peace-talks that are happening now around the russian war in Ukraine. Thank you!

[@galanis38]

What peace talks? The West has been sabotaging peace talks on Ukraine again and again for years now.

[@berndhofmann752]

His books open my mind concerning Russia. Thank you Prof. Snyder!

[@hannakuss8209]

They listened to him then, but didn’t hear. That’s why we are where we are in 2022…

[@narva5440]

Who?

[@TamaraSL]

Exactly :( A Bloodland once again.

[@fiebigflorian]

Nonetheless, it explains why the green party faction in Parliamant was (and remains) the most strongly pro-Ukrainian faction: They invited Timothy to educate themselves.

[@mykos21]

Fantastic lecture by Mr. Snyder! Thank you very much for the wise words! But it is a pity that even five years after the lecture, Germany is very slowly turning its face towards Ukraine and the truth.

[@bahiraluna]

That was a very precise and very revealing speech. I thank you, professor Snyders, for unfolding it all clearly and logically!

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING. Russian fightinIn fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@innatk2552]

Very important speech. It should be reiterated and widely spread now, after February 24, 2022.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

It would be great if Lier Snyder talked about historical responsibility of Ukrainian Banderas for Holocaust. See German movies when Nazionalists with Ukrainian flag on the sleeve kill Ukrainian Jews. Hi from USA.

[@VSP4591]

He only blames Germans. What about UK and USA which recognized Soviet Union borders of 1939!!!! This border was a rapt and a clear aggression of smaller states with consequences today, after so many years. How is possible to blame Germans that lost the WW2?? Americans were so stupid??? They did not recognize the occupation of Latvia, Lituania and Estonia!!!

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@mishaknopkin2199]

@@simonpeterson3326 Oh naturlih! Ukraine formed 1st Ukrainian, 2nd Ukrainian and 3rd Ukrainian fronts who liberated Ukraine and Europe from Nazi. And 4th Ukrainian front was liberating "Ukrainian" Crimea. You forgot to mention Bandera UPA army who was holding defense in the East against Kazaps. 😁😁😁😁

[@simonpeterson3326]

@@mishaknopkin2199 UKRAINIANS HAVE AN ANCIENT SAYING ABOUT THE GENOCIDAL NAZI RUSSIAN PEOPLE: "lying like a russian"! That's all russians ever do - murder and lie, lie & murder murder murder murder then lie lie lie- that is the HISTORY of lying GENOCIDAL russia

[@soniakralova9029]

I love T. S. for his absolute clarity and veracity!

[@yurijmikhassiak7342]

I love this lesson a lot. We should all take responsibility for all dark pages of our history. It's so simple to blame only others.

[@simonpeterson3326]

reconnect your brain please. UKRAINIANS WILL NEVER TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE EVIL RUSSIAN GENOCIDES AGAINST THEM. Nor will any other GOOD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR any other EVIL

[@yuriymykhasyak4565]

@@simonpeterson3326 Our responsibility is in that we made it possible for russians to kill Ukrainians.

[@bonsummers2657]

Others are the people of our history. This guy is an example of the Leftist/Demcrat platform of faulty understandings and applications. Ridiculous.

[@ronny-lb1cr]

For a long time I thought Germany's responsibility for their past is a little too much. Until I realised that other countries with a difficult past do too little. The US in particular where it's okay to have symbols in public that stands for the dark past. Germany is on the right path.

[@tarickw]

12:33 For anyone who doesn't speak german, "Die ukrainische Kornkammer. Milch und Honig von der Ukraine" translated "the Ukrainian breadbasket; milk and honey from Ukraine"

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING. Russian fightinIn fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@shunichiroasaba6256]

Thank you. It made me think about the historical responsibility of Japan.

[@rsr789]

Totally. What Japan did in Manchuria for example has NEVER been apologized for by post-war Japan.

[@schtreg9140]

@SCPython The Americans.

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

Sure is a lot of blaming of Japan in this comment thread...and even America, somehow? Unless you both are from Japan and/or America, I'm afraid you've missed the ENTIRE point of Timothy Snyder's lesson.

[@iloveOxmo]

@@velvetmagnetta3074how so ? Aren’t the parallel between Germany and Japan particularly relevant in this case, since they were both invested in a colonisation enterprise, and have both failed to take a hard look on some of their crimes, and even more so in Japan’s case ?

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

@@iloveOxmo - This was a year ago, so I don't remember. But I strongly suspect there are many missing comments on this thread due to KZbin having deleted their profiles while cleaning up their Russian bots and trolls problem. Without the missing comments, my post comes off as odd and unhinged. But when you consider at the time around a year ago, Japan was strongly supporting Ukraine right alongside the US, UK, Europe, and South Korea (and still is), it makes more sense that Russian bots would be out in full force trashing Japan - and I was probably just responding to the usual historically-inaccurate hyperbole and rudeness of the trolls. My comment is not directly addressing the OP. And of course all nations have things in the past for which they must atone - including Japan, especially when it comes to China and Korea. *Edited to add: The talk was about each nation facing our OWN wrongdoings (genocide, colonization, slavery, war, ethnic cleansing, etc.). This talk was explicitly about NOT blaming or trashing other countries - like the trolls were doing here. The trolls were doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Timothy Snyder was imploring Germany, Russia, and indeed, all of us to do - to examine and criticize our OWN actions!

[@tomasnozka1]

Amazing comprehensive video. Eye opening in ways how he connects ideas with history together. Than you Mr. professor

[@bonsummers2657]

This guy is an example of the Leftist/Demcrat platform of faulty understandings and applications. Ridiculous.

[@nataliyagregory2911]

the city of Chernihiv also has a memorial where more than 10,000 residents of Chernihiv were killed and buried in one city in mass graves in a very short time.

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@Syrolenka]

Please also do not forget Belarus that was also occupied by Germans and lost 25% of its population.

[@plinkfuture2557]

Prof. TS is A brilliant gift

[@azerenatka]

Great lecture!

[@wIodzio_YT]

A must see, phenomenal speech 👏👏👏

[@scahall100]

Thank you for putting the current conflict in Ukraine into historical context. It takes courage to stand in front of a global audience including many German intellectuals and remind everyone of their part in colonial genocides of the past. Especially striking for me was the connection between American expansion into its western frontier with Hitler's attempt to conquer and colonize Ukraine.

[@MrHmjg]

brilliant! following he lectures at yale in 2022...

[@VSP4591]

How easy is to blame Germany which lost the war. Nobody will contradict. The fact that US and UK accepted the border of Soviet Union of 1939 is not an issue. The main culprit in this case is Germany. Probably this speech is a starting point for demanding some war compensation from Germany to Ukraine. Poland already did this so why not Ukraine???

[@faoiltiarn2279]

@@VSP4591 How convenient to say such things as a German. How comfortable to live in an economy which in 25% was built on goods plundered in Poland. How good it was to have millions of slaves for the Bayer and BMW factories. How to comfortably kill 6 million Poles and not pay compensation. How convenient to say it was my grandfather. A lot of us don't know what it really means, because you killed our grandparents. How convenient it is not to mention this in school history books. How convenient is it not to erect a single memorial to Polish victims in Berlin? Let's say it's history. Let's leave it. Now we are getting ourselves cheaper gas from Russia so that our economy has an advantage over others. Cheap Chinese workers for shares in the port. And stupid Americans will continue to defend us, despite the fact that we break alliances and we do not spend 2% on NATO.

[@VSP4591]

@@faoiltiarn2279 I am not German at all. What I have said is history not fantasies. The 2% is a tool to buy more weapons from US. In the past US encouraged European countries to spend less on military in order to be the big boss and his leadership not be contested.

[@love_for_travel]

Me too

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@ОляКиричук-ю5ю]

What a great lecture. Thank you so much

[@nataliyagregory2911]

Thanks for understanding real history and making a good analysis

[@love_for_travel]

Thank you for your work, prof. Snyder

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS It is indeed HIGH time to FINALLY discard the LUDICROUS Russian smears against Ukraine. ONE MILLION RUSSIANS, fought in German uniform in WWII. Of them 130,000- that 's one hundred thirty thousand as Nazi Waffen SS units. See RONA, RUSSIAN LIBERATION ARMY, VLASOV, VON PANNWITZ the countless HIWIS… et al The greatest contingent of foreign WAFFEN SS VOLUNTEERS WAS...RUSSIAN! UKRAINE had a mere 22,000 fighting in German Uniform- (who btw refused to fight any allies but the Russians & communists i.e not ideological Nazis) FAR FAR less than France, or tiny Estonia, Holland, Finnland, Sweden, Lithuania, Hungary Latvia et al. So if today one believes the Russians that they are fighting to de-nazify and de-satanize Ukraine, it is akin to believing Russian smears of Ukraine as Nazi collaborating anti-semites!TIME TO DISCARD RUSSIAN FALSE NARRATIVES to defame Ukraine as information warfare against the very existence of Ukraine. Yet, the Neo Nä/zi Russian un ambassador CRIMINAL speaking on behalf of russia at the UN, smears the entire Ukrainian people as "Näs/is! He calls the legitimate elected democratic government of Ukraine a näsi Junta! At this very moment the russian parliament is 87% neo-näz/i, ultra right, nationalist- such as putin's very own brown shirt party "United Russia" run by the self proclaimed neo-näsi Zhirinovsky. Simply google up the russian parliament's own website to find this out in two minutes. Putin's spiritual Guru is Alexander Dugin, the self proclaimed neo-näz/i who passionately calls upon putin to carry out a FOURTH RUSSIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and wipe them out entirely this time, where both lenin and stalin failed in this exact very plan. Only TWO NATIONS ON EARTH HAVE A JEWISH PRESIDENT (and until 2020 consecutively also a Jewish prime minister)- ISRAEL and....?....UKRAINE! WHOSE DEFENSE MINISTER IS ALSO JEWISH UKRAINE and its people LITERALLY GAVE MORE BLOOD THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the Holocaust. UKRAINE LOST 15-7MILLION PEOPLE IN WWII! 8.3 MILLION MILITARY AND 7.4 MILLION CIVILIANS ACCORSING TO RUSSIAN not Ukrainian archives briefly opened in Moscow in 1992 then quickly re- sealed by putin CHURCHILL WROTE THAT GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINIANS WHERE THE ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT OCCURRED AS OF 1943 There are 2240 UKRAINIANS honored among the RIGHTEOUS in Jerusalem for giving their lives to save Jews in WWII. There are a mere 220 “russians”. Let no one ever again serve you the libel, the SMEAR that Ukrainians are “anti-semites.” It is acknowledged that tens of thousands more UKRAINIANS were murdered by russians and Germans before they could be documented and recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” THERE WERE 130. 000 russian nazi collaborators in German Waffen SS uniform SIX TIMES MORE THAN UKRAINIANS. France, Holland, Estonia, etc had FAR MORE - (and IDEOLOGICALLY CONVINCED TRUE NAZI SS COLLABORATORS than Ukraine. Ukrainians allied with Germany unwillingly to save UKRAINE from the russian socialist genocidal meat grinder. PEOPLE IGNORE the giant MASTODON in the room- ALL THE ALLIES COLLABORATED WITH....? A FAR MORE GENOCIDAL REGIME- WITH SOCIALIST RUSSIA. Yet not a single word is ever whispered in this regard. UKRAINE’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY AND the AXIS CAN NEVER BE OVERRATED. AS CHURCHILL WROTE, GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE, BY UKRAINIANS (NOT IN “RUSSIA”). 67% of All German forces (all German forces worldwide, not just on the Eastern front) including elite and SS troops were fighting & were DESTROYED in… UKRAINE, not in some “russia” or elsewhere. 1st UKRAINAN FRONT 2nd UKRAINAN FRONT 3rd UKRAINAN FRONT 4th UKRAINAN FRONT 5th UKRAINAN FRONT comprising 7.4 million troops THAT’S SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-MILLION UKRAINIAN NOT “Russian” TROOPS DEFEATED GERMANY and saved a certain “Russia” and the USSR FROM GERMANY. Ukrainians constituted about 24% of the Armed Forces of the USSR, or 8 million troops, yet UKRAINIANS were always at the very front. Russians came behind the first waves. The mass rapes of women were carried out by russians coming after the first waves made up almost exclusively of Ukrainians as of 1943. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WAR OUT OF A SOVIET TOTAL OF 23 MILLION. ( million military and 6 million civilian! WHICH MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER REPUBLICS OF THE USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST A TOTAL OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE SAVED "russia's" backside in WWII and carried out the VAST MAJORITY of the defeat of Germany. It would have done so without the allied D-Day invasion. YET NEVER A WORD IS SPOKEN OF UKRAINE IN WWII, only the word, "russia, russia, russia, russia..." UKRAINE ALONE LOST 150% OF WHAT THE FIFTEEN OTHER SOVIET “REPUBLICS” LOST ALL TOGETHER 1. Armenian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) 2. Azerbaijan SSR 3. Byelorussian SSR 4. Estonian SSR 5. Georgian SSR 6. Kazakh SSR 7. Kyrgyz SSR 8. Latvian SSR 9. Lithuanian SSR 10. Moldavian SSR 11. Russian SFSR (Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) 12. Tajik SSR 13. Turkmen SSR 14. Ukrainian SSR 15. Uzbek SSR The USSR LOST A TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS plus “russia” LOST 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL… WHEREAS UKRAINE ALL ALONE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE, AS OF LATE 1942 WAS THE WORLD’S EPICENTER OFWORLD WAR II. As of 1943 UKRAINE WAS THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY OF GERMANY IN WWII …AS HITLER ORDERED. 7200 UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES WERE RAZED TO THE EARTH. …THAT’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-TWO HUNDRED… World War two in Europe was essentially a genocidal Tsunami which devastated exclusively UKRAINE, NOT “russia” from West to East (up to Stalingrad on Ukraine’s eastern border) and back again from East to West. (It slightly overflowed Ukraine's northern border at Kursk) As this wave rolled back westward the Germans razed 7,200 Ukrainian towns and villages. They and their populations were obliterated… Yet IGNORAMUSES in the GERMAN GOVERNMENT want to APPEASE "russia" by slitting Ukraine's throat from behind and tossing it to "russia" out of eternal generational guilt for what they did to...(not Ukraine) but rather to the rogue, mafia, illegitimate, unelected, oligarchial, neo-nä/zi DICTATORSHIP of "russia."

[@skronked]

This guy is USA's history-laureate!

[@mishaknopkin2199]

It would be great if Lier Snyder talked about historical responsibility of Ukrainian Banderas for Holocaust. See German movies when Nazionalists with Ukrainian flag on the sleeve kill Ukrainian Jews. Hi from USA.

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@soniamiller4787]

Mind-blowing 🤯

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@admiralbenbow5083]

25.38 Well congratulations, you finally got there. Another way of putting this is that pooty has taken full advantage, not of a German sense of responsibility, but of appalling German naivity. Along with everything else it was less than a year after Pooty walked un challenged into Ukraine that Merkel was busy signing a new gas deal with Russia. What kind of a message does this send ???? It is now 75 years since the disaster that was Nazism. Germany has gone to vast lengths to come to terms with, in a very responsible way the internal legacy of that time, and it continues to do so, but the big problem is that a very large part of their foreign policy comes over as an apology, and more importantly as horribly naive and weak, which is where Vladimir Putin comes in, and Germany fell for it. The politics of Pooty are the politics of convenience. It it is convenient to exaggerate a historical `issue` he will first do that and secondly then he will hang his hat on it. If it suits him he will seize on it and use it. Nobody can stop him doing that, but what they can do is to avoid coming to him humbly, cap in hand, and bowing in apologetic supplication for something that happened three quarters of a century ago, because if you do that he will simply suck your blood, or someone elses because he is under the impression that you will do nothing. I rest my case.

[@piotr0704]

Thank You Mr. Snyder !!!

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

Watching this today, Feb 24th 2023, the day after the 1 year anniversary of Russia's current and full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and I can't see how anyone could BE THIS RIGHT!!! Holy crap, Timothy Snyder, maybe history is worth paying attention to afterall?!? And right now, we are all - Ukrainians, Europeans, Americans, and most of the world - dealing with our collective failure in our response to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and subsequent occupation of the Donbas. And who is hesitating? Who has not jumped out in front to reject Putin's encroachment and immediately supply Ukraine with anything and everything it needs to expel Russia from Ukrainian sovereign territory? Now it makes much more sense how Russian IRRESPONSIBILITY infects the rest of us with a soporific so we stay nice and comfy blaming Ukrainian nationalists, but never ourselves for our role in the crimes against Ukrainians over the years. That's how they get ya! If you don't face the ugliest and scariest parts of your country's crimes - and face them head-on - you'll get sucked in and manipulated by Russisn propaganda DESIGNED to make you insecure, rudderless, apathetic, and hopeless, so that you'll fall asleep instead of fight the evil within Russia that it, itself, has yet to face.

[@ЛенаМельник-в7в]

...they were listening, but not hearing...

[@DetectiveMagnumKane]

he stands at the Green Party podium, If I'm correct. Green Party was largely supporting Ukraine before the full-scale war.

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING. Russian In fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@vladimirskala]

Great talk, who made the Slovak subs? Good job.

[@user-dmytro92]

Thank you

[@Mishtimaus]

Worth watching in 2022

[@MarieGobeille]

🌬🙏Merci! Tellement! 💌 J’apprécie que vous vous permettiez de nous jeter en bas de nos chaises de temps en temps! Magistral./ 💌 🙏

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Hope this video will not be deleted. Very strong and powerfull speach however history shows and i am focusing mostly on history - they wont make it i am affraid without help from all the word and power of internet situation would be same like with poland in 39 , nor france uk helped even being an ally

[@nataliyagregory2911]

If you do an analysis of Ukraine and Jews, you should also add: that before covid, up to 50,000 Jews came to Ukraine for the Jewish festivals in Uman (Ukraine). In Ukraine, in Uman, even some Jews returned from Israel to live there (data before covid). Many Jews have always lived in Ukraine (because they were not persecuted as in the former Europe of past centuries. And Babi Yar was created by Nazis and collaborators (of the Russian-Soviet regime). In general, more Jews from the Soviet Union lived in Ukraine than in other republics of the Soviet Union (according to the knowledge of the neighborhood in the cities, because sociologically many Jews had Ukrainian names, but culturally and ethnically they were Jews. Before the great migration of Jews from the post-Soviet Union, there were many Jews living in the city of Chernihiv (teachers, doctors, bosses were mostly Jews ( people of Jewish origin). І thinking if we making genetic expertises, we will find a big mixed blood Jewish and Ukrainian in Ukraine . We having last name Yakubets , who in reality means Jacob and added ets ( Ukrainian language) . Near Chernigov we have village with names Yacubowka , it is same main Jacob ( and added Ukrainian language words ending) . Ukraine has always had many Jews, maybe because it was more comfortable for them to live in this country .

[@ssir5927]

Jews came to Ukraine in significant numbers as agents of the Polish state. They all had the collective rights of an aristocracy, in the peculiar system of the Polish Aristocratic Republic, whereas the vast majority of Ukrainians had no such rights. Ukraine was the scene of the some of the worst violence against Jews in the history of the world, as during the Khmelnitsky Uprising, and many many other times. The reason the Jews did not disperse into other regions of the Russian Empire is because they were literally not allowed to do so. The Pale of Settlement was a thing, only the richest of Jews could arrange for permission to live in St. Petersburg or Moscow through bribery and the purchase of influence.

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING. Russian fightinIn fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@gordondavies7773]

@@ssir5927 Historically inaccurate. There were Jews in Ukraine even before the Vikings founded Kiev. In Polish Ukraine only Poles could own property. In a country which was largely illiterate, educated Ukranians, many of whom were Jewish, found work managing property, farms, businesses and especially bars. This is a common occurence in all colonies.

[@ssir5927]

@@gordondavies7773 Everything I said is absolutely accurate. Yes there were Jews there before, Khazars had a large Jewish component, and Crimea has had a Jewish population since antiquity, yet the vast majority of Jews absolutely came as agents of the Polish state starting in the 13th century. Also the local "Ruthenian" aristocracy absolutely maintained ownership of their lands, so Poles were not the only ones owning land. You may be incorrectly referring to the conditions of the transfer of "Ukraine" from Lithuania to Poland, as in all Lithuanian territory Poles (non-Lithuanians) were not allowed to own lands, which obviously changed once Ukraine was transferred from Lithuania to the Polish Crown, all still within the same overall state union.

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Lets be honest since kmielnicki uprising or even bfore jews were out of Europe and they were allowed to stay in poland. One of the best example is kazimierz jewish city outside krakow now part of it. For me it is striking how ukraininas treated jews from many centuries - horribly... Just reed history not Wikipedia

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

did he say Schröder - Putin pact?

[@ЮлианГуруев]

Actualy nothing new for me as for Ukrainian who graduate school in 1998, but still nice that its been spoken by american professor

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@andkosification]

Of course nothing new for you, but I can assure your, starting on from the Austrian Border to the western end of the EU the people completely forgot about this. My grandfather fought in WWII and remembered the "Ukrainian Kornkammer" pretty well, for my father, the world ended geographically and historically at the iron curtain. In my generation EU citizens barely knew where Ukraine was. Now they know!

[@ЮлианГуруев]

@@andkosification Yes I can see it now. More and more people in Europe and other places are getting familiar with Ukrainian history. From my perspective it is good thing. I’m just disappointed that this didn’t happen since 1991. Probably this war could be avoided if Western audiences were more informed about history of Ukraine. But I also should admit that Ukrainian people also “discovering” West now. Some with migration, some with Western equipment on a front line, some are looking how Western politicians manage their support towards Ukraine. So it’s going both ways. Unfortunately “price” (in humans lives, destroyed properties and occupation) for such discoveries is to high. Better would be just to listen professors in KZbin.

[@jeroenvanderheijden1996]

Thank you 🙏

[@anjaschneider5904]

6 year ago and so prophetic 😢

[@mikefixac]

Slava Ukraini. My wish would be for every German to listen to this talk. Especially at this moment in time. Pair this with Zelensky's interview with Time Magazine, where he was asked if what has happened in Ukraine's history has hardened them. Zelensky's response: Some people might say it hardened us. But I think it took away so much of Ukraine’s ability to develop,” “It was one blow after another, the hardest kind. How does that harden us? People barely survived. Hunger broke them. It broke their psyches....

[@darik2788]

Blablabla take care of your own crimes first

[@chris1806]

U-kraina is a fake country used as a tool against Russia in the global game of power!

[@olga7568]

Thank you. Excellent thorough analysis

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@homosphaericus3287]

Immer wieder erstaunlich, wofür wir so alles verantwortlich sind.

[@MeeesterBond17]

Verstehen Sie dieses Video bitte nicht falsch, "verantwortlich" heißt nicht "schuldig" - z.B. Großbritannien ist für die politischen Situationen in ehemaligen Kolonien verantwortlich, aber das bedeutet nicht, dass Bob aus Birmingham die Verursache Armut in Zimbabwe schuldig ist. (Entschuldigung für irgendeine Grammatikfehler!)

[@MichaelBrown-be7vn]

Amazing, erudite, brilliant scholar

[@MM-yi9zn]

Timothy Snyder is right. Germany does have a responsibility to Ukraine precisely because of their past behaviour during Hitler & WW2.

[@darik2788]

No he isnt hahaha you Anglos would be responsible for the hole world, bc of the multiple genocides you committed all over the globe

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

My grandfather had said - they will do it again

[@darik2788]

Doing what? Murdering people?

[@hebreophone]

Excellent lecture

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@raymondparnell439]

20 mins in and ive learnt so much already. Awesome

[@olgamarsh169]

This is Ace! 👌

[@truthbud]

The sheer amount of approving and rejoicing comments of ordinary Russians under videos of the atrocities committed against civilians in Ukraine were no less a shock for Ukrainians than the war itself. We have somehow got used to the war, but the realization of who we have been living next to all this time, without even knowing it, is still terrifying. Those creatures call themselves our brothers. Imagine what they would do to you who they call their enemies if you let them.

[@chris1806]

U-kraina is a fake country used as a tool against Russia in the global game of power!

[@fabiofaria4243]

Wonderful lecture!

[@cliffordthies6715]

Guilt is not transmitted by blood, nor liability beyond any wealth that is inherited. The consequences of sin may be visited upon the children even unto the fourth generation, but not the guilt.

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

It's not "guilt" so much as taking respinsibility for your country's crimes (all of us, not just Germany) and facing them head-on so that "guilt" cannot be used against you to manipulate you by nefarious geo-political actors.

[@tetianabida9524]

We see the consequences now

[@simonpeterson3326]

According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@simonpeterson3326]

UKRAINE FACTS It is indeed HIGH time to FINALLY discard the LUDICROUS Russian smears against Ukraine. ONE MILLION RUSSIANS, fought in German uniform in WWII. Of them 130,000- that 's one hundred thirty thousand as Nazi Waffen SS units. See RONA, RUSSIAN LIBERATION ARMY, VLASOV, VON PANNWITZ the countless HIWIS… et al The greatest contingent of foreign WAFFEN SS VOLUNTEERS WAS...RUSSIAN! UKRAINE had a mere 22,000 fighting in German Uniform- (who btw refused to fight any allies but the Russians & communists i.e not ideological Nazis) FAR FAR less than France, or tiny Estonia, Holland, Finnland, Sweden, Lithuania, Hungary Latvia et al. So if today one believes the Russians that they are fighting to de-nazify and de-satanize Ukraine, it is akin to believing Russian smears of Ukraine as Nazi collaborating anti-semites!TIME TO DISCARD RUSSIAN FALSE NARRATIVES to defame Ukraine as information warfare against the very existence of Ukraine. Yet, the Neo Nä/zi Russian un ambassador CRIMINAL speaking on behalf of russia at the UN, smears the entire Ukrainian people as "Näs/is! He calls the legitimate elected democratic government of Ukraine a näsi Junta! At this very moment the russian parliament is 87% neo-näz/i, ultra right, nationalist- such as putin's very own brown shirt party "United Russia" run by the self proclaimed neo-näsi Zhirinovsky. Simply google up the russian parliament's own website to find this out in two minutes. Putin's spiritual Guru is Alexander Dugin, the self proclaimed neo-näz/i who passionately calls upon putin to carry out a FOURTH RUSSIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and wipe them out entirely this time, where both lenin and stalin failed in this exact very plan. Only TWO NATIONS ON EARTH HAVE A JEWISH PRESIDENT (and until 2020 consecutively also a Jewish prime minister)- ISRAEL and....?....UKRAINE! WHOSE DEFENSE MINISTER IS ALSO JEWISH UKRAINE and its people LITERALLY GAVE MORE BLOOD THAN ANY NATION ON EARTH TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the Holocaust. UKRAINE LOST 15-7MILLION PEOPLE IN WWII! 8.3 MILLION MILITARY AND 7.4 MILLION CIVILIANS ACCORSING TO RUSSIAN not Ukrainian archives briefly opened in Moscow in 1992 then quickly re- sealed by putin CHURCHILL WROTE THAT GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINIANS WHERE THE ENTIRE EASTERN FRONT OCCURRED AS OF 1943 There are 2240 UKRAINIANS honored among the RIGHTEOUS in Jerusalem for giving their lives to save Jews in WWII. There are a mere 220 “russians”. Let no one ever again serve you the libel, the SMEAR that Ukrainians are “anti-semites.” It is acknowledged that tens of thousands more UKRAINIANS were murdered by russians and Germans before they could be documented and recognized as “Righteous among the Nations.” THERE WERE 130. 000 russian nazi collaborators in German Waffen SS uniform SIX TIMES MORE THAN UKRAINIANS. France, Holland, Estonia, etc had FAR MORE - (and IDEOLOGICALLY CONVINCED TRUE NAZI SS COLLABORATORS than Ukraine. Ukrainians allied with Germany unwillingly to save UKRAINE from the russian socialist genocidal meat grinder. PEOPLE IGNORE the giant MASTODON in the room- ALL THE ALLIES COLLABORATED WITH....? A FAR MORE GENOCIDAL REGIME- WITH SOCIALIST RUSSIA. Yet not a single word is ever whispered in this regard. UKRAINE’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEFEAT OF NAZI GERMANY AND the AXIS CAN NEVER BE OVERRATED. AS CHURCHILL WROTE, GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE, BY UKRAINIANS (NOT IN “RUSSIA”). 67% of All German forces (all German forces worldwide, not just on the Eastern front) including elite and SS troops were fighting & were DESTROYED in… UKRAINE, not in some “russia” or elsewhere. 1st UKRAINAN FRONT 2nd UKRAINAN FRONT 3rd UKRAINAN FRONT 4th UKRAINAN FRONT 5th UKRAINAN FRONT comprising 7.4 million troops THAT’S SEVEN-POINT-FOUR-MILLION UKRAINIAN NOT “Russian” TROOPS DEFEATED GERMANY and saved a certain “Russia” and the USSR FROM GERMANY. Ukrainians constituted about 24% of the Armed Forces of the USSR, or 8 million troops, yet UKRAINIANS were always at the very front. Russians came behind the first waves. The mass rapes of women were carried out by russians coming after the first waves made up almost exclusively of Ukrainians as of 1943. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE IN THIS WAR OUT OF A SOVIET TOTAL OF 23 MILLION. ( million military and 6 million civilian! WHICH MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER REPUBLICS OF THE USSR ALL TOGETHER LOST A TOTAL OF 9 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE SAVED "russia's" backside in WWII and carried out the VAST MAJORITY of the defeat of Germany. It would have done so without the allied D-Day invasion. YET NEVER A WORD IS SPOKEN OF UKRAINE IN WWII, only the word, "russia, russia, russia, russia..." UKRAINE ALONE LOST 150% OF WHAT THE FIFTEEN OTHER SOVIET “REPUBLICS” LOST ALL TOGETHER 1. Armenian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) 2. Azerbaijan SSR 3. Byelorussian SSR 4. Estonian SSR 5. Georgian SSR 6. Kazakh SSR 7. Kyrgyz SSR 8. Latvian SSR 9. Lithuanian SSR 10. Moldavian SSR 11. Russian SFSR (Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) 12. Tajik SSR 13. Turkmen SSR 14. Ukrainian SSR 15. Uzbek SSR The USSR LOST A TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS MEANS THAT ALL THE OTHER SOVIET REPUBLICS plus “russia” LOST 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN TOTAL… WHEREAS UKRAINE ALL ALONE LOST 14 MILLION PEOPLE. UKRAINE, AS OF LATE 1942 WAS THE WORLD’S EPICENTER OFWORLD WAR II. As of 1943 UKRAINE WAS THE STRATEGIC PRIORITY OF GERMANY IN WWII …AS HITLER ORDERED. 7200 UKRAINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES WERE RAZED TO THE EARTH. …THAT’S SEVEN-THOUSAND-TWO HUNDRED… World War two in Europe was essentially a genocidal Tsunami which devastated exclusively UKRAINE, NOT “russia” from West to East (up to Stalingrad on Ukraine’s eastern border) and back again from East to West. (It slightly overflowed Ukraine's northern border at Kursk) As this wave rolled back westward the Germans razed 7,200 Ukrainian towns and villages. They and their populations were obliterated… Yet IGNORAMUSES in the GERMAN GOVERNMENT want to APPEASE "russia" by slitting Ukraine's throat from behind and tossing it to "russia" out of eternal generational guilt for what they did to...(not Ukraine) but rather to the rogue, mafia, illegitimate, unelected, oligarchial, neo-nä/zi DICTATORSHIP of "russia."

[@jankowalyk7301]

Great lecture.

[@inzhener2007]

Very actual and correct and visible now

[@juliane__]

Really apprecriate the pointing out of the realistic historic german responsibility, a topic that is completely missing in 99,9% of the mediaspace. Never heard this precise words before Timothy Snyder. Geopolitcal speaking, Germany is just a natural ally with Russia, no excuse, but an explanation for many things german government does.

[@berndhofmann752]

Fast prophetische Analyse, von heutexaus gesehen.

[@olgaargentina2230]

Germany did Not Listen and NOW we see how it ended up

[@barryshaw5660]

I was born in 1950 , I’m responsible for what l say and what l do , period. Can’t do anything about what happened before that and don’t want to live in the past.

[@idicula1979]

Evil is Babel because it the shortcut to character that we all take, I recommend taking the long way to figure out the world for yourself to fully flesh out the world and be and offer the unique perspective to life that you where born to play. Being the salt of the world, not sink down to its ease and banality but to be your own hero, and in it to offer others what they could truly be.

[@Adrian-ww2jj]

What about the plans of Hitler concerning Poland and Belarus?

[@andkosification]

In 1941 you could not take Ukraine without taking Poland and Belarus. Taking Ukraine meant full scale war with the Sowjet Union. Hitlers plans were always megalomaniac and doomed to fail.

[@johncarroll772]

Also slavery and extermination, all slavs to Hitler were inferior subhuman.

[@juliawolk8050]

❤❤❤

[@MohamadRabman]

You come in you're coming you're comin gone you coming gone you're coming you're coming

[@stellascott4584]

How can this have only 37K views, 15 months into the escalated russian occupation?? And how shameful that I was not educated about Ukraine's role in Hitler's 3:rd Reich agenda in school. It angers me!😠

[@clydecessna737]

Whew!

[@giselapfeifer4666]

Germany's historical responsibility is not to get involved in national ambitions of Ukraine..

[@nataliyagregory2911]

In wolds war 2 .

[@williamrosenfeld2462]

On

[@rajo741]

The robotic translation on this fine lecture, is an abomination and a disservice to those of us actually wanting to learn something. This kind of thing should not be allowed.

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Well what a glorification about ukraininas fighting on side of nazis As i ve read almost no one from poland slovacia czech litiva were fighting on german side. Unkainian batalions on german side were the most savage against eastern europeans .met a old veteran from london some time ago who fought on d day and then europe this what wrote are his words

[@gmw3083]

He says Ukrainian nationalists were a small part of its history and are a small part of its present. Except that the maidon coup wouldn't have happened without them, and the current conflict wouldn't be happening either. America always gets extremists to do its dirty work. Snyder has an agenda and always has. He is on the neo khan side.

[@johncarroll772]

Have you read about Ukraine partisans fighting the Nazis

[@justinemot2282]

@@johncarroll772 obviously he did not. He went to the bookshop like to a supermarket, ignored all of the data how many Ukrainians actually died and were killed by the nazis, ignored all those who fought against the hitler - whether in red army or the partisans, ignored the fact that russians not only collaborated, not only had russian armies fighting on the side of nazis, but also the fact that there has been an actual molotov-ribbentrop pact. Snyder couldnt be more right. Ukrainians were the killed by the nazis second only to the Jews - but somehow Ukrainians are the nazis bcz it's so hard for someone to stop and think for a moment and admit that they were ignorant on the subject & wrong. It's so cozy to stay in the old ways.

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

@Adam Smith - Please go back and check the dates of the beginning of the Soviet Union; when Ukraine became a Soviet Socialist Republic; the date of the Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement between Stalin and Hitler; the date both Stalin and Hitler got paranoid and betrayed each other and attacked Poland (the original plan was to split it between them 😳); and finally, please check the date WWII ended and the date those Baltic states were left to their own devices by the allies... only to be gobbled up by the 2nd most despised country in WWII. Good luck! You sure have a lot of reading to do! 😉

[@chris1806]

U-kraina is a fake country used as a tool against Russia in the global game of power!

[@julianholman7379]

some one should tell timothy that Stalingrad isnt in Ukraine, but far beyond it - which seems inconsistent with his assertion that the conquest of ukrainial soil was the whole of Hitler's war aims in the east (oops ! overshoot ?). Snyder says the war was all about land, but one could as easily say it was all about oil - in particular Caspian oil, at the threshold to which lay stalingrad

[@gordondavies7773]

He said that the Germans only intended to occupy 10% of Soviet Russia. Stalingrad, as a major industrial town, was in the 10%.

[@andkosification]

It was about Ukraine, this is not Mr. Snyders assertion, this is what the Nazis very openly said.

[@Asmo_Mus]

Please, look closely at map. Stalingrad (which is now known as Volgograd) is located in less than 300km of the border of Ukraine. The reason why german army was going towards this city and didn’t stop on the border is simply because of quite unique geography of this lend. Ukraine is located majorly on the wast lands of the “European plain” - an open area which lacks natural barriers for any potential invader to cross this land. In historical and military terms this exact feature is the reason why Ukraine has been always tied up in conflicts between major forces invading this land either from east or west, south or north. Now, the Volga river on contrary represents exactly such massive natural barrier in that part of front. The only one river that can play the same role is Dnipro, which basically divides Ukraine in two (and which has been used by germans in the first part of invasion). So if you’re planning to occupy Ukraine, you would eventually go all the way to the east, towards Volgograd to establish well protected and fortified border for your occupied land masses. Plus it helps when you need to establish a “safe belt” between Soviets and your occupied land. And in this instance those extra 300km would play major role in keeping an essential land (which is Ukraine) well protected from the interferences of the front.

[@nico210]

It was Ukraine Breadbasket and Caucasan oil fields. Both important, therefore Stalingrad iso Moscow. Ukraine (in the sense of land of Ukrainians) at that time was, by the way, not yet outlined with a border. A lot of Ukrainian were living in the Rostov and Sotchi area, closer to the Caucasus. They have been deported by Stalin later after the war. In general by Ukraine the German probably meant all the fertile lands in the Dniestr-Dniepr-Don area. A last point is that while the oil field were important for autosufficiency, those areas were less liveable as "lebensraum" than present day Ukraine. From the Volga on, the steppes transform into a kind of desertic land not suitable for agriculture. So the argument of Pr Snyder is not exactly contradictory with that part of history.

[@justinemot2282]

If you have listened attentively to Snyder's speech you would hear him addressing this point - hitler did not plan to occupy more than 10% of russia. & even though Russians suffered massively in that, but they were not the major victims during that war, as they claim now. But for decades russians claim the victimhood status, demand all sorts of benefits for it and, at the same time, deny this for other nations. Whether Ukrainians, Chechen, Crimean Tatar - those are somehow all "nazis" and they "100%" collaborated and deserve the genocide and occupation. Modern people should know about such historical gaslighting & guilt tripping - and not fall them. So when, practically a fascist state blatantly lies about others being fascists and starts unjust wars here and there other states would not just start an endless & pointless discussion "maybe the occupied country is at fault here, after all, some bots on the Internet called them fascists or terrorists or isis?" or "how could we oppose this aggressor when 70 decades ago they fought against nazism and fascism?".

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Lady under german flag - priceless hehe

[@thejudge8892]

Elon Musk listen this!

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

What abt Poland general gubernator hanz frank who lived in krakow in wawel castle, what about whole poland invaded by germans in 39? I am not a pole just historian from London what about ss galizen ? Mister professor

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

Yeah okay, Adam Smithskaya from Londonov.

[@jankowalyk7301]

Adam Smith-Tovarishch Iwanov. why don't you get normal job and stop prostitute yourself?

[@darik2788]

What about the millions murdered by British monsters in their colonies?

[@crimony3054]

🤣🤣 The difference between a Biden administration and a Trump administration is that under Biden it takes him an extra three minutes to get to "Orange Man Bad."

[@johncarroll772]

That is the most hilarious thing lve ever read, l can't get myself up from the floor, lm still rolling about laughing, my sides are aching with laughter 🤣 😆 😂 😄 😅 😉 🤣 😆 😂 😄 😅 😉 🤣 😆 😂

[@mikefixac]

You got that Brother. After all these years, it still happens all the time.

[@ДмитрийДепутатов]

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[@margaritadubrovina7063]

Interpretation of history very subjective. Ukraine is a victim. Only Ukraine? What about Belarus ? Russia ?

[@elagrion]

База

[@LePlerome]

3:29 lmao, wat. cooky Antifa nonsense.

[@KbB-kz9qp]

It seems this ordeal in Ukraine started with the 2014 Maidan coup. Hopefully it will end before it spreads into Europe or goes nuclear.

[@robertchang605]

His hypothesis is solely based on Hitler's colonialism intention. It looks more of speculation on reading the mind of Hitler and putting aside other accepted theories by saying that they're not logical. What makes him so arrogant and so sure?

[@invisiblehandofadamsmith]

Nord stream 2 and 500 helmets haha

[@corneliussulla9963]

LMAO!!!! In Germany we call this sort of stuff "Pulling ´arguments´ out of your nose."

[@vitaliitomas8121]

And when exactly he does that here?

[@corneliussulla9963]

@@vitaliitomas8121 By talking about Germanys responsibility for the most corrupt country in Europe.

[@vitaliitomas8121]

@@corneliussulla9963 nation=/=country

[@corneliussulla9963]

@@vitaliitomas8121 What are you trying to tell me? How is Germany responsible for Ukraine? Because of the fascists?

[@vitaliitomas8121]

@@corneliussulla9963 for what it has done to Ukraine.

[@kittykatzcenteno7160]

AND THE BANDERA WARRIORS UNDER THE CARPET. AND THE AZOFS BATTALIONS THE SAME.

[@ciarypowykonie3096]

Hi Ivan, already on the front? How warm is it now?

[@simonpeterson3326]

kitty the vaccuum cleaner bag full of the ONGOING russian SMEARS & DEFAMATIONS against Ukraine- SAVIOURS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE....UKRAINE FACTS WWII UKRAINE/USSR NUMBERS NO NATION ON EARTH CONTRIBUTED AS MUCH & LOST SO MUCH AS UKRAINE, GLOBALLY IN WWII. It is a TOTAL MYTH to say that “russia” lost the most and contributed the most to defeat Germany. IT WAS UKRAINE. In WWII the USSR made up of 15 REPUBLICS, not “Russia” lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE. Of that total, UKAINE ALONE lost the VAST MAJORITY i.e.15.7 MILLION- 8.6 MILITARY & 7.1 civilian. ALL THE OTHER 14 REPUBLICS ALL TOGETHER including some place called “Russia” lost the remaining 7.3 MILLION. THE WORLD’S GLOBAL TOTAL OF LOSSES ON ALL SIDES TOTALS 55 MILLION of which UKRAINE ALONE LOST 15.7 MILLION.ALMOST ONE THIRD OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES IN THE ENTIRE WORD IN WWII WERE…UKRAINIANS! 28.55% OF ALL VICTIMS GLOBALLY IN WWII WERE UKRAINIAN. To provide a perspective: FOR EVERY AMERICAN WHO DIED IN EUROPE IN WWII, 135, ONE HUNDRED THIRTY FIVE UKRAINIANS DIED! NO nation on earth suffered as many lost as did UKRAINE by far. YET IMPERIALIST GENOCIDAL RUSSIA HAS PROCLAIMED THAT RUSSIA ALONE DEFEATED GERMANY, THAT UKRAINE PLAYED NO PART IN THIS & THAT ON THE CONTRARY UKRAINE “COLLABORATED WITH THE NAZIS!” THE INSANITY OF THIS SMEAR IS THAT IN FACT NO OTHER NATION ON EARTH GAVE AS MUCH TO DEFEAT GERMANY AND THEREBY TO SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST. By the way, it was THE UKRAIIANS WHO LIBERATED AUSCHWITZ AND ALL OF TH EGERMAN CAMS IN THE EAST. It was a UKRAINIAN, never a “Russian” who raised the red flag on the Reichstag. ALL THE ESTERN EUROPEAN CAPITALS WERE TAKEN BY UKRAINIANS, INCLUDING BERLIN. The sussALL OF THE GERMANY In fact there were ONE MILLION RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN NAZI GERMAN UNIFORM IN WWII 130THOUSAND AS Waffen SS. See Russian liberation Army, RONA, Russian Liberation Army. General Vlasov, Von Pannwitz etc etc. There were several million more non-uniformed russian auxiliaries fighting with the Germans known as “Hilfswillige” or “HIWIS” to the Germans. …In contrast, Ukraine had a mere 22,000 fighting in German uniform. Less than France, Spain, hungary, Denmark, etc etc. Tiny holland had 54000 in German SS uniform. Tiny Estonia 34,000 and on and on… Ukrainians in German uniform, refused to fight the Western allies and fought exclusively communist forces. Ukrainians joined the German army because it was the best fighting force in the world and once they had gained military expertise they deserted into the UPA & OUN guerrilla armies fighting until 1957 against the Russian occupiers of Ukraine for a free & independent Ukraine. It is for this reason that UKRAINE, UKRAINIANS AND ALL FIGHTERS & SYMPATHISERS FOR A FREE & NDEPENDENT UKRAINE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEFAMED & SMEARED, in order to destroy andy LEGITIMACY for an independent Ukraine and the very existence of a Ukrainian identity. For example independent Western research in 2020 showed that UKRAINE IS THE LEAST ANTI-SEMITIC COUNTRY NOT ONLY IN ALL EUROE BUT IN ALL THE WORLD. Yet the NAZI 6 ANTI-SEMITE SMEARS HAVE PERSISTED since 1920. These smears have until feb. 24, 2022 PERSISTED ALL OVER THE WEST. Why? Because of Western OBEISANCE TO FALSE DEFAMATORY CULTURALLY GENOCIDAL RUSSIAN NARRATIVES. Why have they been parroted at all levels all over the West? Because of the vast endemic metastases of SYMPATHY FOR LEFTISM, SOCIALISM & THEREFOR FOR RUSSIA ALL OVER WESTERN MEDIA & POLITICS. IT IS ONLY AS OF Feb, 24 2022 that these FALSE DEFAMATORY NARRATIVES ARE FINALLY, FINALLY FINALLY BEING STRIPPED AWAY LIKE AFILTHY STINKING BLOODSOAKED CARPET BEING RIPPED UP ALLOWING UKRAINE’S IDENTITY TO APPEAR AND TO START BREATHING. Russian In fact, Ukraine saved russia’s a$$ as well as all Europe’s from Germany in WWII

[@simonpeterson3326]

a vacuum cleaner sucks in all kinds of russian smears & defamation indiscriminately. A Human being should seek out facts: According to Russian -not Ukrainian archives- opened by Yeltsin in 1992 but quickly re-sealed by putin: THE 15 REPUBLICS OF USSR, NEVER "russia" lost a TOTAL OF 23 MILLION PEOPLE in WWII. Of these, UKRAINE LOST 15.7 MILLION PEOPLE! 8.6 million military & 7.1 million civilians. All the other 14 republics including some sort of "russia" ALL TOGETHER lost 7.3 MILLION PEOPLE. Unfortunately, president Zelensky, when speaking of Ukraine’s sacrifice, mentions the MILITARY losses alone without the civilian losses. GERMANY WAS DEFEATED IN UKRAINE BY UKRAINE, AS CHURCHILL WROTE, SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST AND SAVED russia's & ALL EUROPE'S backsides. Close to ONE THIRD third OF ALL VICTIMS ON ALL SIDES GLOBALLY OF WWII WERE...UKRAINIANS.

[@simonpeterson3326]

Bandera spent 1941- 45 in a NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP because HE OPPOSED NAZI GEMANY. Ukrainians adore their JEWISH PRESIDENT & THEIR JEWISH DEFENCE MINISTER elected by 72% of Ukrainians whom you CURSE & SMEAR. Why do you do that kitty? Because like the entire West, you have sucked in the russian narratives. Every single mention of Ukraine & Ukrainians MUST be linked to SMEARS, DEFAMATIONS & LIES by russia. For that reason every single fighter for the independence of the people of BOTH ISRAEL & OF UKRAINE has been subjected to russian SMEARS. So today, since 24 Feb 2022 AT THE LATEST, there is no more excuse to hold to GENOCIDE, WHICH IS PRACTISED BY DEFAMINING AND SMEARING THE PEOPLE WHO SAVED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE HOLOCAUST- the UKRAINIANS, who gave 15.7 million lives to destroy German nazism practically single-handedly as CHURCHILL wrote. There are 2240 righteous Ukrainians honored in Jerusalem but a mere 220 of your BELOVED RUSSIAN NAZIS to whom you pay homage by adopting their smears. VOMIT OUT THE RUSSIAN LIES you have been holding in you for so long.

[@velvetmagnetta3074]

Were those Banderites in the theater in Mariupol?