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Allen Hingston's avatar

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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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

Is Nationalism so ingrained that you see it as insurmountable?

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Allen Hingston's avatar

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

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TCinLA's avatar

Very.

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David Levine's avatar

"very" is putting it very mildly.

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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

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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David Levine's avatar

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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Allen Hingston's avatar

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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Gail Adams VA/FL's avatar

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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