Lecture by an American historian Timothy Snyder on the Holodomor (“murder by starvation”) in Ukraine

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  @telenochek · 6 years ago

  Brilliant lecture by a brilliant intellectual who can explain history clearly. This lecture should be translated into as many languages (Ukrainian, Russia, Polish, Romanian etc.)  as needed so that people could get educated on this period.

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  @UA_Bee_Sting · 2 years ago

  Wow! What a powerful closing statement. An argument for the power of one over none.. thank you for inspiring us to be better

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  @nastiadavid2334 · 6 years ago

  Its amaze me in a good way, that more and more international historians interests about post soviet countries, as there is so little about this in especially in english.  Thank you for your work!

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  @SuperMegaKisan · 2 years ago

  Thank you for this. Totally unforgivable that we were never told of this in school. I think it's important for people to hear of this, especially now that people still are calling themselves communist, and that it in some circles is even seen as "hip" and "progressive"... At least here in Sweden.

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  @gregjames2684 · 4 years ago

  &quot;One is always soo much greater than zero&quot;<br><br>What a note for closing his whole argument , , ,

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  @oulianadjaman1537 · 6 years ago

  Applauds to Dr. Snyder!

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• AN

  @andrewtrachuk · 6 years ago

  Thank you for this video. It is a great opportunity to listen a speech of famous public intellectual.

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  @Johntb100 · 6 years ago

  Brilliant speaker.

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  @steventhompson399 · 4 years ago

  Snyder wrote a good book on the unfortunate events in eastern Europe called &quot;bloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin&quot; which gives a nice overview of the suffering, persecution, starvation, murder, genocide, etc. caused in the 20s 30s 40s by the two dictators. It includes the kulaks, poles, holodomor, holocaust, einsatzgruppen, siege of leningrad, soviet POWs, etc. I really liked reading it although it&apos;s obviously somber and tragic...

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  @Sempronius_Densus · 4 years ago

  The more educated you become the more intense it gets when you learn about certain events because you understand and can relate to the details more due to maturity and gaining life experience. For example when your a child and hesr the word starvation, it doesnt hit you as hard as it would to an adult. A just hears stomach growling and skipping dinner. When an adult hears the word starvation, they paint a much more detailed and horrific picture. They can see the elderly die from basic health conplications, little kids with swollen bellies not being able to move, unsanitary environments all over which create and adds more complications to the horrendous suffering. Screams and yells out of every house windows throughout the neighborhoods stemming from excruciating pain in just about every household. The unbearable hardships… and that barely scratches the surface. When i learned about these things from books my father used to give me as a child such as crime and punishment leo tolstoy books etc…it was a chore to read them but now when I learn about these historical events I’m glued and go tunnel vision from the excitement of new knowledge and understanding. Its like story time for adults.

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  @user-iw1vl7pv4u · 5 years ago

  Good lecture, thanks for posting.

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  @halunam2507 · 4 years ago

  One of the best videos I ever watch. Thank you.

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