23: The Colonial, the Post-Colonial, the Global
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The History of the Second World War
The theory behind this war is that the stronger nation should be colonizing and starving the weaker nation. According to Hitler, it doesn't always happen because of the Jews. The Ukrainians in his analysis are colonial people. If you kill the Jews or get them out of the way somehow, the Ukrainians will be happy to be ruled by another colonial master. That's the theory. And so it's very important for present politics and for present conversations about imperialism that we know that this war was an imperial war. This is not just some point that I'm trying to make on the margin. There was an imperial motive and imperial geography to this war; there were peoples who were subject to an imperial policy
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