16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The German Factor in Ukraine
Kievan Rus is in some way connected to a broadly speaking Germanic world by way of Scandinavia, by way of the Vikings. And so you can think of Ukraine as being part of a kind of crescent of Scandinavian or Viking state building attempts which ranges from England through Scandinavia itself and then all the way down to Kiev. The next moment which I didn't really bring out is the Reformation. That friction between Protestantism and Catholicism forces our churchmen in places like Czernyhev in Kiev to take up many languages,. It's also interesting in that Protestantism and Orthodoxy sometimes formed a kind of brief practical alliance where the Orthodox would borrow arguments from the Catholics
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