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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

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.

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.

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

Not in the form of the Russian Empire, not in the form of the Soviet Union, but certainly in some form of the Russian control. That's, for me at least, it's quite clear. Otherwise, there would be no busts to the Russian emperors and Catherine and Peter and others.

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

Not in the form of the Russian Empire, not in the form of the Soviet Union, but certainly in some form of the Russian control. That's, for me at least, it's quite clear. Otherwise, there would be no busts to the Russian emperors and Catherine and Peter and others.

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

Not in the form of the Russian Empire, not in the form of the Soviet Union, but certainly in some form of the Russian control. That's, for me at least, it's quite clear. Otherwise, there would be no busts to the Russian emperors and Catherine and Peter and others.

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

Solzhenitsyn clearly identifies himself as Russian. And his opposition to the communist regime was opposition of a Russian nationalist. So his argument was that communism was bad for Russia.

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

Solzhenitsyn clearly identifies himself as Russian. And his opposition to the communist regime was opposition of a Russian nationalist. So his argument was that communism was bad for Russia.

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

Solzhenitsyn clearly identifies himself as Russian. And his opposition to the communist regime was opposition of a Russian nationalist. So his argument was that communism was bad for Russia.

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

And for him, Russian question is about the Russians, ethnic Russians, but also he was thinking about Russians in Putin's terms, or Putin thinks in Solzhenitsyn's terms, about Ukrainians and Belarusians constituting part of that.

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

And for him, Russian question is about the Russians, ethnic Russians, but also he was thinking about Russians in Putin's terms, or Putin thinks in Solzhenitsyn's terms, about Ukrainians and Belarusians constituting part of that.

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

And for him, Russian question is about the Russians, ethnic Russians, but also he was thinking about Russians in Putin's terms, or Putin thinks in Solzhenitsyn's terms, about Ukrainians and Belarusians constituting part of that.

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

So the Russian question is the biggest tragedy of the 20th century, the division of the Russians, the loss of the statehood and division of the Russians between different states. This is for Solzhenitsyn, Russian question. And his original idea and plan was presented in the essay that he published in 1990, which was called How We Should Restructure Russia.

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

So the Russian question is the biggest tragedy of the 20th century, the division of the Russians, the loss of the statehood and division of the Russians between different states. This is for Solzhenitsyn, Russian question. And his original idea and plan was presented in the essay that he published in 1990, which was called How We Should Restructure Russia.

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

So the Russian question is the biggest tragedy of the 20th century, the division of the Russians, the loss of the statehood and division of the Russians between different states. This is for Solzhenitsyn, Russian question. And his original idea and plan was presented in the essay that he published in 1990, which was called How We Should Restructure Russia.

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

And restructure Russia meant getting rid of the Baltics, Central Asia, and Caucasus, and have Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, including those who live in northern Kazakhstan, to create one nation-state. He was a Russian nationalist, but he was thinking about Russian nation-state as the state of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.

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

And restructure Russia meant getting rid of the Baltics, Central Asia, and Caucasus, and have Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, including those who live in northern Kazakhstan, to create one nation-state. He was a Russian nationalist, but he was thinking about Russian nation-state as the state of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.

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

And restructure Russia meant getting rid of the Baltics, Central Asia, and Caucasus, and have Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians, including those who live in northern Kazakhstan, to create one nation-state. He was a Russian nationalist, but he was thinking about Russian nation-state as the state of Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians.

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

Once the Soviet Union collapsed and his idea was not implemented, in the 1990s he formulated Plan B, taken over by Russia of Donbass, Crimea, and southern Ukraine. the areas that now are included in the Russian Constitution.

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

Once the Soviet Union collapsed and his idea was not implemented, in the 1990s he formulated Plan B, taken over by Russia of Donbass, Crimea, and southern Ukraine. the areas that now are included in the Russian Constitution.

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

Once the Soviet Union collapsed and his idea was not implemented, in the 1990s he formulated Plan B, taken over by Russia of Donbass, Crimea, and southern Ukraine. the areas that now are included in the Russian Constitution.