1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Why Ukraine Had to Exist?
Putin gave a bad answer to where history comes from, which is that things had to be the way they are. He said Russia and Ukraine have always been together, and if they're not together, that's the result of alien, non-historical forces. The argument for this war is that Ukrainians don't know who they really are because they've been polluted by all this Polish stuff or Lithuanian stuff or Habsburg stuff. And once you're in that way of seeing things, then of course the war makes perfect sense to you, right? So the way that history is presented has an integral connection with the decision to make a war.
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