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Serhii Plokhy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1125 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

would suggest a different attitude toward the opposition, maybe some form of the coalition government like it was the case in Britain with Churchill, under different circumstances, of course, or this is basically, in his opinion, something that would be destructive and something that would would really be an impediment for the question of unity and war effort.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And I would ask this question not to basically suggest that that's the way to go, but I would be very much interested to hear what his thinking about that is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And I would ask this question not to basically suggest that that's the way to go, but I would be very much interested to hear what his thinking about that is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And I would ask this question not to basically suggest that that's the way to go, but I would be very much interested to hear what his thinking about that is.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

I think that there is a possibility of that, right? In the conditions of any democracy, any emergency. The war, in the case of the Soviet Union, there was a Chernobyl disaster and so on and so forth. You make decisions much faster. You create this vertical, and then it's very easy to get really used to that way, dealing with the issues in the conditions of emergency, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

I think that there is a possibility of that, right? In the conditions of any democracy, any emergency. The war, in the case of the Soviet Union, there was a Chernobyl disaster and so on and so forth. You make decisions much faster. You create this vertical, and then it's very easy to get really used to that way, dealing with the issues in the conditions of emergency, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

I think that there is a possibility of that, right? In the conditions of any democracy, any emergency. The war, in the case of the Soviet Union, there was a Chernobyl disaster and so on and so forth. You make decisions much faster. You create this vertical, and then it's very easy to get really used to that way, dealing with the issues in the conditions of emergency, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And then the continued emergency Or with no emergency, they are continuing the emergency mode. I think, again, that would be a very natural thing for any human being to do to make it easier. Should I do that easier and in a more effective way, or should I do it the right way? That's a challenge. Sometimes it's difficult to answer this question.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And then the continued emergency Or with no emergency, they are continuing the emergency mode. I think, again, that would be a very natural thing for any human being to do to make it easier. Should I do that easier and in a more effective way, or should I do it the right way? That's a challenge. Sometimes it's difficult to answer this question.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And then the continued emergency Or with no emergency, they are continuing the emergency mode. I think, again, that would be a very natural thing for any human being to do to make it easier. Should I do that easier and in a more effective way, or should I do it the right way? That's a challenge. Sometimes it's difficult to answer this question.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And suddenly it's easy to realize that actually you can't rule in any other way. Whatever skills you had of people around that can help is that already gone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And suddenly it's easy to realize that actually you can't rule in any other way. Whatever skills you had of people around that can help is that already gone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

And suddenly it's easy to realize that actually you can't rule in any other way. Whatever skills you had of people around that can help is that already gone.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

As a historian, I have a lot of questions, and I have questions about when the decision was made to attack Ukraine and what went into this decision, because we are thinking about that, we are trying. So as a historian, I have this big question. I have a question about the Crimea, when those decisions were made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

As a historian, I have a lot of questions, and I have questions about when the decision was made to attack Ukraine and what went into this decision, because we are thinking about that, we are trying. So as a historian, I have this big question. I have a question about the Crimea, when those decisions were made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

As a historian, I have a lot of questions, and I have questions about when the decision was made to attack Ukraine and what went into this decision, because we are thinking about that, we are trying. So as a historian, I have this big question. I have a question about the Crimea, when those decisions were made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So, that sort of questions that interest me, but the rest, either I think that I understand what is going on with him, or I don't expect the answer that can help. For example, a good question, whether you regret or not the start of the war in 2022, given the enormous, enormous casualties on both sides. but you can't expect from a politician an honest answer to this question, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So, that sort of questions that interest me, but the rest, either I think that I understand what is going on with him, or I don't expect the answer that can help. For example, a good question, whether you regret or not the start of the war in 2022, given the enormous, enormous casualties on both sides. but you can't expect from a politician an honest answer to this question, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So, that sort of questions that interest me, but the rest, either I think that I understand what is going on with him, or I don't expect the answer that can help. For example, a good question, whether you regret or not the start of the war in 2022, given the enormous, enormous casualties on both sides. but you can't expect from a politician an honest answer to this question, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#415 โ€“ Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

So there are questions to which I know he can't answer honestly. And then there are other questions to which I think he already provided all answers that he could. So what for me is of interest are basically questions for a historian about the timing and the logic of particular decisions.