23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global
The Making of Modern Ukraine
Are They All Nazis?
There is a consensus of implicit imperialism here which has to do with on the Russian side and a an aggressive retelling of history. On the German side a lack of historical reflection combined with a certainty that the historical reflection has already taken place. Which is not only a German problem you can find that elsewhere too. The Russians are consciously manipulating this. They're consciously playing on what they understand to be German sensibilities. Now I said this was a consensus and it is when after Germany after Russia invades Ukraine the Christian democratic government under Angela Merkel then brings into existence Nord Stream 2. At which is interpreted by a broad swath of Europeans as nothing more than a reward for Russia invading Ukraine.
