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20: Maidan and Self-Understanding with guest lecturer Marci Shore

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Maidan

In the Polish press, they were talking about post-stancey, which is insurrectionary. And that was what the Poles understood about the Maidan. I think that's why the coverage was so different. In the German press, people were talking about the kids in Kiev, you know, supportively but in a slightly kind of condescending way. Those who fight for our freedom in yours. Okay, I see I'm running out of time, so let me... People stay on the Maidan all winter. They stay in freeze. Sometimes their bodies are found having been tortured and frozen in the woods. Activists are frozen and battered with fire hoses. There's a sense

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