Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis u0026 War | Lex Fridman Podcast #415" video.

  1. The general tendency is scholarship is to deconstruct nationalism and nationalist myth creating.. Anstandard work is Hobbesbawms Nations and Nationalism since 1778: Program, myth, and reality. Ukrainian nationalism seems to be the only European nationalism not subject to such critical review.
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  2. ​ @rcher8051 That is precisely wrong. Ukraine is an ethnostate trying to become even more ethnostatier. Thats were the Russians as not real slavs, as Orcs, comes from. Thats were the whittling away of the rights of Hungarians in subcarpathia comes from. Thats were the destruction of Soviet monuments-even though most Ukranians supported or fought in the Red Army, comes from. Thats were the destruction of monuments to Pushkin comes from. Thats were the weird neo Paganism of not only Azov but even guys like Zaluzhniy comes from
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