A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 7

Something of a Ukrainian history lesson, using Serhii Plokhy's 2015 book The Gates of Europe, and focused on matters relative to today's war, including Ukrainian cultural development and nationalism, Russian influence, the role of Jews in this history, and even the Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Uniate Church.

The sixth and seventh parts finish up on the Kiev pogrom of 1905 according to Solzhenitsyn, move on (from the Jews) to Duma politics in Ukraine (and toward nationalism), and finally the rise of importance of Galicia in today's western Ukraine in Plokhy's story (again, largely cleansed of the Jews). At this point it's become obvious that the author's intentions are to create a story about Ukraine as a nation of people always desiring to be set free instead of a politically- and culturally-complex area with a massive historical influence coming from its Ashkenazi Jews, which I will address further in the next part. Don't think it's only coincidence that this is the essential narrative today.