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10: Global Empires

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Ukraine Is a Bread Basket, It's a Bread Basket

The German and Austrian plan for winning the First World War was, we're going to take the grain from the Ukrainians. It doesn't work out because the Ukrainian peasants don't play their role in Africa. Hitler thinks that Ukraine is a concoma, it's a bread basket, it's an unlimited supply of food. He describes the Ukrainians in Africanizing terms for a very simple reason. This is when Hitler grew up,. Those are the colonies that Germany lost in the First World war were African colonies.

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