Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415

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  @lexfridman · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Here are the timestamps. Please check out our sponsors to support this podcast. <br>Transcript: <a href="https://lexfridman.com/serhii-plokhy-transcript">https://lexfridman.com/serhii-plokhy-transcript </a><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA">0:00</a> - Introduction &amp; sponsor mentions: <br>- Eight Sleep: <a href="https://eightsleep.com/lex">https://eightsleep.com/lex</a> to get special savings <br>- Shopify: <a href="https://shopify.com/lex">https://shopify.com/lex</a> to get $1 per month trial <br>- NetSuite: <a href="http://netsuite.com/lex">http://netsuite.com/lex</a> to get free product tour <br>- AG1: <a href="https://drinkag1.com/lex">https://drinkag1.com/lex</a> to get 1 month supply of fish oil <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=78">1:18</a> - Collapse of the Soviet Union <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=1047">17:27</a> - Origins of Russia and Ukraine <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=1830">30:30</a> - Ukrainian nationalism <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=2293">38:13</a> - Stepan Bandera <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=4033">1:07:13</a> - KGB <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=4931">1:22:11</a> - War in Ukraine <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=7107">1:58:27</a> - NATO and Russia <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=7770">2:09:30</a> - Peace talks <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=8597">2:23:17</a> - Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=8994">2:29:54</a> - Power and War <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=9645">2:40:45</a> - Holodomor <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=10037">2:47:17</a> - Chernobyl <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=10671">2:57:51</a> - Nuclear power <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=11248">3:07:28</a> - Future of the world

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  @andreme7326 · 2 years ago

  You need to invite Timothy Snyder too.

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  @michaelcruz8425 · 2 years ago

  Lex, I don&apos;t know how often you read your comments but listening to your podcasts with political thinkers and historians has done a lot for me. I started college at 16 and have delayed my graduation over and over again because I couldn&apos;t figure out what I wanted to do. I majored in Political Science. The amount of knowledge that I had gained from these podcasts had inspired me to open up a few books and it reignited my interest in my field, making me happy to finally decide to make a career out of this. Thank you

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  @niloyahmed7792 · 2 years ago

  Please lex, have more historians. Thanks for the conversations

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  @christinemartin63 · 2 years ago

  By far, the best interviews (IMHO) are the ones with historians. Mindbenders all!

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  @davidmuller1554 · 2 years ago

  What a great quote to end this podcast on!<br>&quot;Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.&quot; - Ernest Hemingway

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  @irina573 · 2 years ago

  Пан Сергій - фаховий та поважний вчений. На питання &quot;в чому сенс вторгнення в 2022?&quot; майстерно почав з &quot;коли війна почалась в 2014...&quot; Brilliantly

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  @Fupuloru · 1 year ago

  Mr Serhii, thank you very much.

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  @yura_nos · 1 year ago (edited)

  So amazing to hear such an extended interview with Serhii. I read Ukraine: the gate of Europe back in 2018, never imagined to be able to watch a 3+ hours interview with the author. Thanks, Lex!

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  @alex_d-f7p · 2 years ago

  Very nice overview of the historical landscape around Ukraine. Like the way Serhii tells history, it&apos;s not boring at all. Read one of his books, worth reading

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  @F4nTom_II · 2 years ago (edited)

  One minor correction (at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-wl8_wpZA&amp;t=1124">18:44</a>): &quot;Once we had Czechoslovaks, now we have Czechs and Slovaks.&quot; Sorry for going nitpicky, but compared to the others mentioned, it&apos;s a bit misleading. <br>Slovaks, Moravians and Czechs (going east-to-west) can technically be taken as three stages of settling in one direction of the slavic diaspora. But Czechoslovakia and the idea of a joint nation is an invention of the early 20th Century, made out of sheer convenience to make a better case for RE-establishing a country after the breakup of Austro-Hungaria. <br>Sadly enough, the wider English culture remains oblivious to anything that went on between the German and Russian lands prior to Napoleon winning at Austerlitz. <br>Like... Czechs having a fairly singificant presence in Europe for centuries as a nation and kingdom (until the 1620 Battle of White Mountain), even having one of their major monarchs as the Holy Roman Emperor (Charles IV, recently elevated from virtually-unknown to somewhat-known worldwide thanks to the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance). <br><br>Czechs and Slovaks exist as separate nations/ethnics/... since pre-1000AD and in the case of Czechs, the oldest written local sources go down to the 13th Century. Differences between Czechs and Moravians are barely worth mentioning, as both groups always maintained close ties. But Slovaks were largely separated from much of their western kin most of the time, mostly due to geographic and political reasons. The Czechoslovak get-together-again after WW1 was an idealistic political stunt that looked great on paper back then, but was doomed to fail in the long run in any case. This would be worth a whole socio-economic lecture.<br><br>Also, the thing about &quot;Bohemia&quot; and &quot;Bohemians&quot; is a sad historical misnomer worthy of an entire lecture too.

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  @MYOB2023 · 2 years ago

  My great grandmother was from Nova Lesna, Slovakia so I am eager to hear this episode and learn more about that time. Many thanks

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