Wonder Woman and the Orcs: Ukrainian History and Western Fables. Keynote by Timothy Snyder

[@ievgenmajor3301]

Thank you Professor! Thank you for supporting Ukraine!

[@evababenko6135]

Great, as always! Thank you, Prof. Snyder, for your firm position in supporting Ukraine!

[@christinamuzzu6414]

His German impression at the end had me in stitches! This man is such a ...Mensch. What a blessing to us all.

[@medeology4660]

Beautiful storytelling - about the stories we tell.

[@olenashepetukhina1233]

Thank you very much Prf Snyder for dispelling the ruzzian lies and telling the truth about Ukraine and its history.

[@ЮсуфКарловичШаганьков]

There is no pure truth , the truth in modern world becomes truth when you and big number of people start to believe in it . Pr . masterly pull the owl onto the glob , and he knows what he is doing . National history is always bunch of myths that we believe in , as well as ,,western” history or “eastern „ . It always about justifying our today being separate from something somehow . So obviously why he doesn’t want to speak about , for example , etymology of Ukraine as a name of country ..

[@olgamarsh169]

Timothy Snyder brings light in these dark hours for the Europe

[@PamelaC23]

Prof Synder is always such an engaging and intriguing speaker. I always learn something from him.

[@bladerawnner]

Thank you pan Snyder!

[@liudmylab2328]

Про жінок скіфів це дуже цікаво, не знала цього, справді неймовірно

[@Duke.Of.Shostka]

Почитайте ще про скіфське плем'я Месогетів. Це ті, що вбили Кіра Великого за версією Геродота. Там вождем є жінка, процвітає hippie free love, куріння конопель, людські жертвоприношення 😊

[@9ragis]

Such a fresh angle on Ukraine’s importance for Europe and the Western civilisation. Prof Snyder is a real tour de force . 🇺🇦🤜🤛 #WhateverVictoryTakes #StandWithUkraine

[@strawberyfield]

It was so interesting to discover this , i will spread around the information. Thank you

[@sabeaver9677]

Yes we do! The oldest cities - of the Trypillian culture - are not very well known - I don’t why - were located near Kyiv. Ancient Trypillian designs are used in pysanky & textiles, to this day.

[@ЮрійСмакула-у5ю]

Thank you for your amazing work!

[@AlonaBluemchen]

Professor Snyder is a Must-Know for every Ukrainian, at least)) - a great way to improve English ( to learn it, in the first place) and to get rid of our inferiority too! Ukrainians are that great 💙💛

[@hififlipper]

Thanks for featuring Mr. Snyder.

[@yuliyakhromchak5885]

I've decided to share this, on the one hand easy-going lecture, and on the other hand, such an eye-opener, with my group of linguistic students

[@bachristus]

Awesome talk!

[@halynaripa2701]

Another brilliant lecture by Timothy Snyder! Thank you🙌🏼

[@Mariupol_is_Ukraine]

Thank you for the great input! 🇺🇦🫶🏻🇪🇺

[@Galyna_Iryna]

Thank you especially for clarifying the meaning of “freedom of speech” as “speaking truth to power” and not powerful people using speech to deceive and lie and misinform.

[@HomeFromFarAway]

a very important distinction 💛💙

[@flosev75]

As usual It was a pleasure to hear this narration!

[@marianathemusiclover176]

I just wish more people would see it and know this amazingly interesting information.🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@whynotfandy]

Years ago I watched a fascinating ‘documentary’ on the ancient civilization professor Snyder refers to: the cucetani-triptillian culture. The story about the sunflowers growing faster on the ‘foundation’ remains of these homes sounds far-fetched, but this culture regularly burned their homes to the ground, and very occasionally (~80 years) burned their entire villages down. This was a practice, not a consequence of war. So, over thousands of years these homes built up biochar in the soil underneath which is still evident by the acutely increased fertility of these plots. Fascinating!

[@HomeFromFarAway]

​@ZhovtoBlakytniy because not all black soil has the same origins.

[@tanita8888]

Thanks a lot for the truth and support, Prf Snyder!

[@Avinath9]

Wow, what was that? Just mind blowing! Thanks Timothy

[@Byl6ka]

Тімоті Снайдер мій краш! Обожнюю його!!!❤❤❤❤ Дуже заздрю учням університетів, які в нього навчаються😢

[@iris1224wwad]

There is a series of videos of Tim Snyder's lectures on Ukraine on KZbin. If you haven't seen them yet, maybe that's the next best thing to actually following his lectures in person. It's called The Making of Modern Ukraine. I think Coursera offers the course online as well.

[@Byl6ka]

@@iris1224wwad вже подивилась, там в його розум і закохалась ☺️

[@iris1224wwad]

@@Byl6ka I have several of his books. I love "On Tyranny", but some of his books are painful to read, such as Bloodlands. Important work, though.

[@Byl6ka]

@@iris1224wwad теж планую почитати, але спочатку треба своїх істориків прочитати: Плохія і Грицака )

[@ArtU4All]

@@iris1224wwad Painful is important to read and know. As opposed to the modern strive of the comfortable societies like the US to embrace the “safe spaces” for the slightest of discomfort. Against the painful, the view of what’s what becomes more clear 💙💛

[@skipleon]

Thank you Dr Snyder always worth price of admission!

[@dimitrijuszigunovas3782]

much respect for Prof Snyder

[@AndreiLop]

Thank you, Professor Snyder

[@andreypereb6381]

Дякую за відображення реальності, якої так не вистачає❤

[@lindablake8799]

❤Thank you, Professor Snyder! I could listen to you every day, & twice on Sunday, if I only had the time. Your lectures & books are always enlightening & I greatly appreciate that. When I listen to historians, they (esp. you) make me want to go back to college to major in American & European history. Thank you, for everything you are doing for our dear friends in 🇺🇦, & our fellow fellow 🇺🇸Americans!

[@bry.olena6559]

Ukrainian Poet Symonenko actually calls them orcs in his poems from the 1960s. So this reference has been around for a long time.

[@victorkorol1933]

What is the name of his poem ?

[@bry.olena6559]

@@victorkorol1933 «Де зараз ви кати мого народу?» or «Народ мій є!».

[@freedmen123]

@@bry.olena6559 The text of that poem doesn't have the word "orc" in it at all.

[@Bohdan816]

Sorry but you confuse horde and orcs.

[@Freerunx3]

Oh yes 1960 far more important than 960 sources

[@yuliyagatilova]

🎉keep going with Kyiv Biennial

[@jacekchmielewski6372]

As a Polish and American citizen, thank you Timothy, for representing such compelling, and thought through, American voice on the world stage!

[@ОлексійЧайка-ш6ъ]

Extremely interesting listening to prof. Snyder every time, i envy his students

[@happygolucky7179]

Very enjoyable and highly informative lecture , thank you Prof Snyder for sharing your knowledge and expertise.

[@Gazer873]

What a wonderful speech!! TY ❤️

[@Nsky-024]

Wow! It was a great lecture. I am impressed and interested in listening to Prof. Snyder. Thank you very much for your work and for sharing the history of Ukraine in such tough times.

[@KOldridge1]

Interesting as always. Thanks!

[@KukharyshynOleh]

That was insightful

[@1midnightfish]

"... milosevic.... putin... and what's his name, the guy who's the governor of Florida...? De Santis" 🤣 Because he talks about such serious stuff, I always forget how funny this man can be, and make the mistake of eating as I listen - and... choke. Beautiful lecture, immense thanks to Timothy Snyder and to the festival for giving him this unique platform!

[@pravak6745]

As someone who left a state run by a Milosevic/Putin type for the freedom of Florida, I was taken aback. Desantis is not perfect and I still respect Snyder, but he is better than perpetuating distorted leftist media characterizations. smh

[@1midnightfish]

@@pravak6745 The whole point of "never again" is that we stop before getting there. If we wait until someone is "as bad as", then what's the point?

[@JakCei]

@@pravak6745 He's a man who as a JAG officer oversaw and took pleasure in acts of torture at Camp X-Ray, has attempted to form his own militia force loyal solely to him, has transformed local education to suppress the history of slavery, and has attacked black and LGTBQ+ communities alike. He's a fascist, and represents a sharp shift to the right for the Republican Party since coming under Putinist influence. The only difference between him and Milosevic is that he doesn't have the same powers to inflict as much suffering as Milosevic did.

[@hannarpenko2520]

Just found a volunteer badge from the "Ukraine Thinking Together conference." (from just under 10 years ago). Thank you, Pr. Snyder and VCRC, for all the work now and then ✨️❤

[@anitaandazola2029]

Profound: in order to receive gifts we need to recognize a gift is being given.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Profound and prosaic. Prosaic if you have given to someone who didn’t recognize the gift.

[@Irenahlu]

Beautiful talk, Prf Snyder. Thank you so much! Very cool and interesting details so skillfully combined to create a unique picture.

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Wow, thank you, Timothy Snyder! You've opened my world & heart.

[@jeaniewilliams3274]

Such a rich presentation, I have to replay it.

[@rostysalvkravchenko155]

Thank you Prof. Snyder for such interesting lecture and an important knowledge of world history you shared with us. appreciated the part on freedom of speech in order to speak truth to power. Truth is dangerous, especially when it's spoken to power.

[@williestyle35]

41:14 respect to Professor Timothy Snyder here for bringing in the mythos of *_Wonder Woman_* . Her endurance as a heroic character and a pop culture icon is a bit amazing - when viewing her true "Golden Age" (of comic books) origin. *_WW_* is indeed a "radical" characterization of a truly "modern woman" of any era. "...with all the strength of _Superman_ plus all the allure of a 'good' and beautiful woman", William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth Marston, and their "life partner" Olive Byrne brought forward a new type of "super heroine". The Marston's were psychologists and were seeking a way to show the power of "love" as a force for good in the world, and as a "strength" of women (though his work would also lead to the "lie detector" device, oddly). I sincerely encourage anyone that found this part of Prof Snyder's lecture of interest to at minimum read the Wikipedia articles on *_Wonder Woman_* and the Marstons, it will be worth the time. 😊

[@TracyBerry-oi6if]

Thank you this is awesome

[@MicleFirst]

I would like to be able to like and subscribe more than once

[@ArtU4All]

I likes your comment and it counts as yet another one 😉 And I replied - it counts too 💙💛

[@solontailor6830]

Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kerrie_Smith_Khipu]

What an absolute gem Prof Snyder is. Single handedly raising the Ukrainian history up to the highest heights and brandishing it as a shield against the lies of Putin! Слава Україні 🇺🇦

[@Galyna_Iryna]

📢Hear, hear! for Amazons among us 🤩🛡️⚔️🏹

[@dsjwhite]

He is an amazing man. Thank you

[@mariyagonchar]

Enjoy: "Good-looking Vasyl, with his sharp jawline and deep brown eyes, looked even more striking in a black turtleneck." Or "The black turtleneck somehow elevated Vasyl's good looks, lending him an air of quiet sophistication."

[@o______opanasovych]

😂😅😁

[@zipperpillow]

Keep it in your pants.

[@ЛарисаСич-с9ж]

Thank you

[@LUISARAMOSCRICK]

extraordinary

[@wernertognetti5956]

Thanka for uploading this super interesting lecture. I could listen to him for many more hours ❤️🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦❤️.

[@HomeFromFarAway]

oh! this was so good ❤

[@Billy_Herrington1969]

Ukrainian youth often called Ukrainian "elvish" even before the full-scale invasion, so there's tolken-ish aspect there too.

[@lenas6246]

it russians who did and do this, they refer to ukrainian as an incomprehensible "elvish" language (and a second later they claim its a dialect of russian)

[@LiudmilaYamschikova]

Awesome!

[@andreabartsch]

Prof. Timthy Snyder has the capacity to pick up a piece of wood, or a stone, and from that telling interesting things which keep the audience hooked hours long.

[@skippy9659]

The man knows his shit, and that’s refreshing.

[@angies.7689]

Excuse me while…… I…… adjust…… my brain.

[@JohnDorian-j7x]

Snyder's Talk starts at 14:30 or so... looonnnnngggggg frkn intro, lol.

[@hififlipper]

Beautiful intro. It was No Zeitenwende but Zeitverschwendung for Europe since 2014.

[@SuperRmoz]

Thank you Professor! We have to explore new planets together, but we are still at war with orcs.... Maybe you, people of the world will help us to finish this story? Do you know any country that gave away its nuclear weapons? Ukraine. Because we are f*** hate the wars.

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

so the take away form Lord of the Ring for the war in Ukraine is that if Frodo had had one of the magic eagles earlier the whole story would have been over quickly. No walking around and fighting all the Orcs just fly with the eagle to the Volcano and drop the ring, end of Sauron in his bunker. Airpower matters

[@ASAS-dn4ve]

Trypillia culture was truly impressive, but not the first one. Neolitic farmers came to Europe from Levant, Jericho is about twice older. On farmers way from Middle East in Balkans there were great cultures as well, Varna is worth to mention. Historical science is fast moving forward and I hope in 20 years from now children will be taught about the cultures which not left written history more proportionally to their importance to us.

[@zipperpillow]

True, but the Tripolye towns/settlements were much larger than anything in the Levant.

[@dmitryyakimenko1779]

23:16 Пан Снайдер говорить не про найдавніше місто!!! бо як таких міст тоді ще не було а про "ПРОТОМІСТО" трипільської культури біля села Небелівка яке мало площу 250-300 гектарів і справді є найбільшим городищем тобто протомістом у тогочасній Європі. Яке існувало на проміжку між 5-4 тисячоліттям до н. е. Чому я це пишу? А тому що в нас хватає дуже "розумніх" людей які вважають що у трипільців були городи і навіть мегаполіси, але городище і город або місто це різні речі. Городище це просто велике укріплене поселення тобто село де просто люди живуть а місто чи город це адміністративний та культурно ремісничий центр як правило з чітким розмежуванням вулиць та торгівельною площею у центрі. У трипільців таких городищ не було! 51:05 Маленьке уточнення пан Снайдер говорить не про наших північно-причорноморських скіфів а про тих що жили за Танаїсом(Дон) тобто про Сарматів. А це одне із Індо-іранських тобто скіфських кочових племен чи групи племен яке на відміну від інших мало одну цікаву рису. А саме те що в них жінки були воїнами! І як пише Геродот не просто так заради забавок а тому що був ритуал за яким тільки та жінка яка принесла голову ворога мала право вийти заміж. Звідси ж і пішла легенда про амазонок бо греки які вперше зустріли сарматів за Танаїсом чи за Кімерійським морем (Краснодарський край) трохи офігіли коли побачили як на них мчить кінний загін серед якого були й жінки Чому я кажу що це сармати? А тому що нам відомі як імена жінок воїнів так і їх кургани тоді як серед скіфських курганів ще жодної жінки воїна не знайшли а історія не знає імен таких жінок серед скіфів. Натомість у сарматів сусідів скіфів ми бачимо такі імена. Амага, цариця Роксолан що звільнила Херсонес (Севастополь) історія життя якої тягне на Голлівудський блокбастр особливо рейд кінного загону 120 вершників на 240 кілометрів у тил ворога за одну добу та знищення усього скіфсбкого війська яке було що найменьше в тричі а то і в десятеро разів чисельніше. Похована за однією з теорій у Ногайчинському кургані в Криму. Томіріс цариця сарматського племені Массагетів яка за легендою вбила перського царя Кіра Другого Великого мстячи за свого сина Спаргапіса. Що цікаво являється національною героїнею Казахстану які у своїх легендах про неї вписали ще ім'я чоловіка Рустам яке ніде в джерелах не згадується. а про саму Томіріс згадує лише Геродот. На жаль це всі імена достовірно відомих амазонок в писемних джерелах.

[@georgedanilov8898]

Дякую за детальний допис!

[@dmitryyakimenko1779]

@@georgedanilov8898 Аще в наших степах ймовірно похована у кургані Переп'ятиха дочка Ассирійського царя Асархаддона Шеруа-Етірат, яка як вважається була дружиною скіфського царя Партатуа. За легендою від місцевих про курган дружина царя під час нападу ворогів підняла ополчення та відбила напад. А ранком виявилося що це чоловік з воїнами повертався додому, довідавшись про смерть чоловіка вона скоїла самогубство. І як вважається в одному кургані лежить цариця зі свитою а в іншому цар бо археологами виявлені в кургані дві різні культури а за легендою ховається громадянська війна в скіфському царстві. Якщо це так то Шеруа-Етірат перша відома жінка воїн серед скіфів.

[@АлександраФилоненко-и2е]

It is so surprising to hear that a famous American professor didn't know about Indo-European languages until recently... I learned about it when I was still at (Ukrainian) school... The same was with the Amazons; they are mentioned in Herodotus's Histories, Book IV: Melpomene, along with Sarmatian women who couldn't marry before they had killed their first (male) enemy.

[@maryhilllockdowns6770]

i was actually searching the comments, if somebody also noticed that

[@olenacherep]

anyone found the painting of the Dutch painter?

[@UkrainianInterpreter]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Otto_van_Veen_-_Amazons_and_Scythians.jpg

[@Martini4825]

Slava Ukraine! Slava the Ukrainian heroes!

[@dustyfairview9062]

Love this guy

[@randomdude7384]

Speak truth to power.

[@tinayang3845]

Great sense of humour

[@ana_a]

I think Ukrainians refer to Tolkien not because everyone read it, but because Lord of the Rings were broadcasted on TV so so many times.. especially during Christmas, so many people watched it and now using this terminology.

[@ДмитроЛавренчук-м3о]

Вітання Василю Черепанину від колишнього студента!

[@spidif2544]

Great

[@jacekchmielewski6372]

1939 to 2022 just over the 80 year cycle. It might just be possible to break out out of this cycle! If we make it through intact in the next 5 to 7 years, I think a great awakening await us.

[@katewoolf6059]

❤

[@manuelcampagna7781]

In French, "hôte" can be either a male guest or the man of the house.

[@mylessalmon2569]

Thank you for showing that the modern came from myths.

[@elselienklein725]

WOW

[@johndewey6358]

Thank you. Both Scythians and Sarmations which Wonderwoman is supposedly from are all Iranian tribes that used to live in Ukraine and southern Russia.

[@oksanavakoulenko2045]

I hope russians did not hear about Neblivka to claim it, as always

[@drreaganeliedithphd6526]

Civilisations ont commencé en Ukraine Cythiens Amazons montre la supériorité de femmes

[@manuelcampagna7781]

There's also The Niebelung's Ring.

[@williamyoung9401]

A true historian never says, "it happened a long time ago." ;-) (1:15:50)

[@Timmerdetimmerdetim]

I call conflict of interest because this time around his talk distinctively feels like a weaponizing of culture. Don't write poetry in the trenches. Don't romanticize. Keep your mind and view clear in the here and now.

[@florinadrian5174]

Small men with weird pelvises? Real archaeologists believed that for decades?

[@redderred]

+

[@Mellow7883]

Та всі дороги ведуть до української мови. То її просто ніхто ніколи нормально не досліджував.

[@ComradeHugo]

всiм просто пiхуй на цю сильску балачку, даже самiм Х-лам.

[@TobyThaler]

Keep your hands off the mics!

[@yurymaidania6222]

Василь перевзувся

[@drreaganeliedithphd6526]

Euromaidan

[@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659]

Euromaidan!

[@ComradeHugo]

They don’t even understand that this orcs-elves narrative reveals their not-zee essence, lol.

[@DmytrykTHEGAMER]

Orcs have no mercy. As russians do.😢

[@Incorruptus1]

Stay realistic please.

[@DesecrateConformity]

There's something deeply obnoxious about this guy

[@cliveengel5744]

Ukraine did not exist until 1922; now, anything other than that interpretation is pure nonsense. Scythians were from Persian, Bulgars originated from the Urals, the Mongols came from Mongolia, the Khazaks came from the Khazars, Ottomans came from Asia Minor, and the Rus Vanagarian Vikings came from Sweden and spoke Norse, not Ukraine. The Ukrainian language comes from Eastern Slavic and not Norse! I cannot find references to maps attributed to Ukraine as they were of Polish, Lithuanian, Russian, Hungarian, and Romanian origin. Cossacks came from Tribes speaking the Tukric language. Crimean Tatars came from Central Asia. Never once does he mention the Mongol destruction of Kyiv in 1150. Kyiv was never a Kingdom but part of Poland and Lithuania and then part of the Russian Empire No, Wonder Woman never came from Ukraine, which did not exist until 1922! This Propagandist is trying to create a link between Ukraine and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Western Ukraine was Polish Galicia, Volhynia, Transcarpthia from Hungary, and Berrasarbia was part of Romania. Snyder does a disservice to all Historians. He should get his own Children's TV Show!

[@Duke.Of.Shostka]

Prof trying to make jokes I front of a German audience 😅

[@zipperpillow]

So awkward.