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That would be good news.

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The West is far more impressed with Navalny that is Ukraine. He might be good for Russia but he is a Russian nationalist who believes Crimea is Russian.

Putin is far more likely to be replaced with another hard liner such as Patrushev.

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Is Nationalism so ingrained that you see it as insurmountable?

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The years of propaganda have made it so, I think. How ingrained is it in America?

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Very.

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"very" is putting it very mildly.

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Tim Snyder is filming his History of Ukraine lecture class at Yale. As my brain was trying to recall reading тАЬRuskaтАЭ in тАШ90тАЩs IтАЩve been enjoying it. And itтАЩs free!

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Yale has been very, very generous about making many of its more popular courses available on places like Youtube. and Yale has a very lecture-dominated curriculum. so I figure the Snyder course'll be available to us all sooner rather than later. and if anyone wants to investigate this NOW, I can highly recommend the great David Blight's Civil War course...he's a magnificent lecturer.

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Saw that. That is so good. Cant remember if I read Ruska or not. I have read Bloodlands and Black Earth and a couple others. He is amazing. Nice to hear a non-Russian Ukrainian History.

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True. My hometown just tore down Robert E. Lee. And I still remember my Kyiv bus driver and his Stalin baseball card.

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That would be great news!

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