23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The History of the Second World War
In the 1970s, West German social democratic governments begin a process of reconciliation with the Soviet Union. The idea that the Second World War was about tens of millions of dead Russians becomes normal in Germany. This meets a German story in which Germans are increasingly willing to take responsibility for the war. And so then in this weird way, what is actually meeting is a Russian quiet imperialism - and it's controlled by Ukraine. No one talks about Ukraine at all because there's been no historical reckoning.
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