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Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 0)

Sees exceptionalism and democratic leadership ...

9/20. What Donald Trump is attempting to do has a name: coup d'état. Poorly organized though it might seem, it is not bound to fail. It must be made to fail.
— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) November 11, 2020

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:18:57 PM EST

Re: Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 0)

The lack of reporters from the Global South in Ukraine is a problem, says @TimothyDSnyder. The story that is unfolding in the next few weeks is one that has to do with Ukraine and the Global South. #dw_gmf
— DW Global Media Forum (@DW_GMF) June 21, 2022

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:30:40 PM EST
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Re: Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 0)

US historian @TimothyDSnyder draws a line from Stalin to #Putin at the end of @DeutscheWelle's Media Forum @DW_GMF: Focusing on the global hunger crisis looming as a result of Russia's war against 🇺🇦 and the blockade of Ukrainian wheat ports like #Odessa [_link]
— Frank R. Hofmann (@FrankRHofmann) June 22, 2022

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:31:27 PM EST
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Re: Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 0)

Timothy Snyder compares Russian grain blockade to Stalin's starvation tactics | DW News |

US historian Timothy Snyder has compared Russia's blockade of grain supplies from Ukraine with Stalin's terror of hunger.
"This is a disaster," said US historian Timothy Snyder of the situation in Ukraine. Speaking at DW's Global Media Forum, the contemporary historian and expert on Eastern Europe referred to Russia's grain blockade in the Black Sea as a policy resembling the Soviet period of Stalinism in the early 1930s.
He drew parallels to Stalin's terror of starvation in Ukraine, which claimed millions of lives. But at that time, Snyder said, there were no journalists drawing international attention to the famine. Russia's war of aggression will now lead to a new famine that will last for two years, Snyder warned.
Looking back in history
At the time, Stalin's terror regime also had an impact on Germany's Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who invaded Soviet Ukraine during World War II.
"The famine in 1933 and 1932 was also an inspiration to Adolf Hitler, whose main goal was to control the fertile agricultural territory of Ukraine," Snyder said at the conference.

Ukraine's Holodomor of 1933 and the Maidan Revolution

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:32:42 PM EST
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Re: Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 1)

An alernative view of Snyder

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:37:26 PM EST
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Re: Timothy Snyder On Hunger, Hitler and Putin (none / 0)

I suspected his role as such ...

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 07:01:15 PM EST
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Russia and Ukraine are battling over underwater mines as the global food crisis worsens | CNBC |

William Alberque, director of strategy, technology and arms control at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told CNBC that Ukraine would have been "crazy" not to have mined the approaches to its ports and that its reluctance to remove them now was rational.

"You can completely understand why Ukraine would be using sea mines right now. The chance of amphibious assault on Odesa has been something explicitly made by the Russians."
But strategists agree that Russia is now using the mines to its economic and military advantage.
"The mines are a real barrier to grain exports from Ukraine ... and they're a big problem," Sidharth Kaushal, a naval power expert with the Royal United Services Institute think tank, told CNBC Thursday, noting that Russia had been strategic about the mines.

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:37:52 PM EST
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Timothy Snyder Recalls Invasion of Russia by Nazi (none / 0)

⚔️ On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany & its cronies invaded the USSR with 8,5 mln troops, ~4,5k tanks, ~50k artillery, ~5k aircraft.

The Soviet Union faced world's most powerful war machine, backed by all of Europe's industrial might.

Yet they ultimately failed. #Victory was ours! pic.twitter.com/m1rw5UvwhL
— Russia 🇷🇺 (@Russia) June 21, 2022

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:40:31 PM EST
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Today America and NATO Escalate Arms Delivery (none / 0)

Eleven Mi-17 helicopters at US Air Force base Davis-Montaigne in Arizona headed for Ukraine. They will defend our country from the russian terrorists.
Video by Mil3010 pic.twitter.com/JB3oZMiCUm
— Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) June 21, 2022

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:41:22 PM EST
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Today America and NATO Escalate Arms Delivery (none / 0)

The supply of PzH 2000 is an example of international cooperation in support of Ukraine. I highly appreciate the efforts of my colleague, 🇩🇪 #DefMin Christine Lambrecht, and I would like to thank the Netherlands and 🇳🇱 #DefMin @KajsaOllongren. [_link]
— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) June 21, 2022

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by Oui (Oui) on Wed Jun 22nd, 2022 at 06:42:09 PM EST
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