One aspect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been the use and abuse of history by President Vladimir Putin, in an effort to justify his actions.
Historian and Russian lecturer Dr Jade McGlynn is an expert on the ways history has been manipulated, both in this conflict and the wider context. She joins Arthur Snell for our latest war bulletin.
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- “In many ways Ukraine and Russia are divided by a common history.”
- “Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Orthodox Church is quite an important indicator.”
- “World War 2 discourse is part of everyday life in Russia, it’s on a different level that we see in Britain.”
- “Russia is good at finding painful points in society and then exploiting them.”
- “It’s codified in Russia’s constitution that you have to respect the memory of the Great Patriotic War.”

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