A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 18

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. Oh, and Austrian Galicia too.

The 18th part finishes on the Holodomor by establishing it as genocide and all the doing of Stalin - "Stalinism" as a parallel to "Hitlerist" Nazism as mythical unequalled evil, that erasing any Jewish responsibility for Soviet behavior, here personified by Lazar "Just Following Orders" Kaganovich.

Part 19 addresses the WWII period of chapter 22 of the book, mostly the Holocaust (in particular Babi Yar) but also as always the focus on western Ukraine, and then starts the critical post-war period, yet again focusing on Galicia and Volhynia, including the church and most importantly nationalism of the Banderian OUN.