18: Before and After the End of History
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Is There a Ukrainian Question?
After the Second World War, when Khrushchev comes to power after Stalin's death, he is someone who's been dealing with Ukrainian question one way or another on and off his entire life. He finds a solution to this question of how Ukraine can both exist and not exist. In 1654, Ukrainians chose to forever bind their own history with that of Russia. So they existed in order not to exist, or they existed inorder to exist at a higher level as part of now the Soviet Union. That's dialectical thinking. It seems to solve this ideological problem. The Soviet Union keeps having Ukraine is real, but then like we're afraid of it, what are we going to do
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