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3: Geography and Ancient History

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Is There a Deep Geography?

The way we think about cities often has to do with particular things that happen in those cities. It's like Vansé might not mean anything to you but Vansé is where a famous plan was made for the extermination of the remaining Jews of Europe. And it's a part of Berlin. You cannot, once you know that you can't hear Vansé and not think about that or Vichy. I would suggest that there's going to be a little something around Kiev like that but in a positive sense because Zelensky stayed. That makes Kiev mean something different than it would have otherwise been.

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