What Drew You to Ukraine as a Historian?

i feel like i'm really fortunate as a historian to have found my way into ukrane, because i think it's the most interesting country in europe. I tried hard to understand ukraine from its own point of view and understand how ukranians came to think of themselves as a nation. Bloodlands is about all the mass killing policies carried out by the germans and by the soviets in the thirties and forties. You krane keep your eyes focused on ukrane as there's a sequence of mass starvation in the early thirties, and then terror in the late thirties,. And then hollo cost and starvation of sov