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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 in historical terms and intellectual terms, what is happening today in the war between Russia and Ukraine is the division on one level or another level that was formulated by the Nobel laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, half Russian, half Ukrainian.

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

So in historical terms and intellectual terms, what is happening today in the war between Russia and Ukraine is the division on one level or another level that was formulated by the Nobel laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, half Russian, half Ukrainian.

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

So in historical terms and intellectual terms, what is happening today in the war between Russia and Ukraine is the division on one level or another level that was formulated by the Nobel laureate, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, half Russian, half Ukrainian.

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

The Ukrainian question is very simple. Now it's not any more acquisition of the nation state, but actually a sovereign state. But it's maintenance. So the Ukrainian question is like dozens of other questions in the 20th and 21st century. the rise of the new state.

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

The Ukrainian question is very simple. Now it's not any more acquisition of the nation state, but actually a sovereign state. But it's maintenance. So the Ukrainian question is like dozens of other questions in the 20th and 21st century. the rise of the new state.

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

The Ukrainian question is very simple. Now it's not any more acquisition of the nation state, but actually a sovereign state. But it's maintenance. So the Ukrainian question is like dozens of other questions in the 20th and 21st century. the rise of the new state.

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

And that's what is the Ukrainian question, whether Ukraine will continue to its existence as a nation, as an independent state, because that existence is being questioned by stating that Russians and Ukrainians are one and the same people, which de facto saying, your guy is Russian, and also trying to destroy the state.

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

And that's what is the Ukrainian question, whether Ukraine will continue to its existence as a nation, as an independent state, because that existence is being questioned by stating that Russians and Ukrainians are one and the same people, which de facto saying, your guy is Russian, and also trying to destroy the state.

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

And that's what is the Ukrainian question, whether Ukraine will continue to its existence as a nation, as an independent state, because that existence is being questioned by stating that Russians and Ukrainians are one and the same people, which de facto saying, your guy is Russian, and also trying to destroy the state.

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

Everything is possible, and the longer the war continues, the more likely a scenario like that becomes. But realization of that scenario would go against the grain of the largest part of Ukrainian history, where Ukraine really emerged as a pluralistic state in which the elements of democracy

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

Everything is possible, and the longer the war continues, the more likely a scenario like that becomes. But realization of that scenario would go against the grain of the largest part of Ukrainian history, where Ukraine really emerged as a pluralistic state in which the elements of democracy

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

Everything is possible, and the longer the war continues, the more likely a scenario like that becomes. But realization of that scenario would go against the grain of the largest part of Ukrainian history, where Ukraine really emerged as a pluralistic state in which the elements of democracy

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

were built in the last 30 years would go against the grain of the Ukrainian society where, as one author formulated in the 1990s, he wrote a book, Ukrainian Nationalism and Minority Faith, where the nationalism was a minority faith, and radical nationalism continues to be, or at least continued to be in 2019, a minority faith during the last elections.

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

were built in the last 30 years would go against the grain of the Ukrainian society where, as one author formulated in the 1990s, he wrote a book, Ukrainian Nationalism and Minority Faith, where the nationalism was a minority faith, and radical nationalism continues to be, or at least continued to be in 2019, a minority faith during the last elections.

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

were built in the last 30 years would go against the grain of the Ukrainian society where, as one author formulated in the 1990s, he wrote a book, Ukrainian Nationalism and Minority Faith, where the nationalism was a minority faith, and radical nationalism continues to be, or at least continued to be in 2019, a minority faith during the last elections.

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

So, possible but unlikely given the historical realities of the last 30-plus years.

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

So, possible but unlikely given the historical realities of the last 30-plus years.

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

So, possible but unlikely given the historical realities of the last 30-plus years.

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

Holodomor is a massive famine in Ukraine between the years 1932 and 1934. And it happened as the result of forceful collectivization of the agriculture. And a tamp on the part of Stalin also really rolled Ukraine into the Soviet Union with basically no potential opposition from Ukraine, now national communists.

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

Holodomor is a massive famine in Ukraine between the years 1932 and 1934. And it happened as the result of forceful collectivization of the agriculture. And a tamp on the part of Stalin also really rolled Ukraine into the Soviet Union with basically no potential opposition from Ukraine, now national communists.