Wow! What a powerful closing statement. An argument for the power of one over none.. thank you for inspiring us to be better

Brilliant lecture by a brilliant intellectual who can explain history clearly. This lecture should be translated into as many languages (Ukrainian, Russia, Polish, Romanian etc.) as needed so that people could get educated on this period.

Snyder wrote a good book on the unfortunate events in eastern Europe called "bloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin" which gives a nice overview of the suffering, persecution, starvation, murder, genocide, etc. caused in the 20s 30s 40s by the two dictators. It includes the kulaks, poles, holodomor, holocaust, einsatzgruppen, siege of leningrad, soviet POWs, etc. I really liked reading it although it's obviously somber and tragic...

Thank you for this. Totally unforgivable that we were never told of this in school. I think it's important for people to hear of this, especially now that people still are calling themselves communist, and that it in some circles is even seen as "hip" and "progressive"... At least here in Sweden.

The more educated you become the more intense it gets when you learn about certain events because you understand and can relate to the details more due to maturity and gaining life experience. For example when your a child and hesr the word starvation, it doesnt hit you as hard as it would to an adult. A just hears stomach growling and skipping dinner. When an adult hears the word starvation, they paint a much more detailed and horrific picture. They can see the elderly die from basic health conplications, little kids with swollen bellies not being able to move, unsanitary environments all over which create and adds more complications to the horrendous suffering. Screams and yells out of every house windows throughout the neighborhoods stemming from excruciating pain in just about every household. The unbearable hardships… and that barely scratches the surface. When i learned about these things from books my father used to give me as a child such as crime and punishment leo tolstoy books etc…it was a chore to read them but now when I learn about these historical events I’m glued and go tunnel vision from the excitement of new knowledge and understanding. Its like story time for adults.

"One is always soo much greater than zero" What a note for closing his whole argument , , ,

Its amaze me in a good way, that more and more international historians interests about post soviet countries, as there is so little about this in especially in english. Thank you for your work!

Thank you for this video. It is a great opportunity to listen a speech of famous public intellectual.

Good lecture, thanks for posting.

Brilliant as usual. Thanks for helping Ukraine.

One of the best videos I ever watch. Thank you.

Brilliant speaker.

Thanks for this

Applauds to Dr. Snyder!

1 Kings chapter 21. Informative lecture.

During terrible tragedy my father was 8 years old під час страшної трагедії моєму татові було 8 років. Eternal memory of Dmytro Vyshnivsky, he died of starvation at the age of five Вічна пам'ять Дмитру Вишнівському, він помер голодною смертю був п'яти років

Timthy is a classic liberal scholar. His the blood land book is a must read classic. The audible version is also available on UKposts.

Fascinating.

Timothy Snyder, have you written a book on Stepan Bandera or can you recommend one? I see a lot of conflicting material on him.

Prof. Snyder is a brilliant historian. Nevertheless, I will take it one step further. Communism in Russia was to a large extend and from the time of Stalin taking over just an ideological epiphenomenon of (ideological vehicle for) the Russian imperialism.

one of the organizer of holomodor in Ukraine was the Ukrainian Lazare Kaganovitch, Staline was Georgian as Lavrenti Beria boss of nkvd; crutches half Ukrainian was political commissar an participated to the genocide

Шкода, що немає українського перекладу...

Це треба було би перекласти на українську.

What about Rhea Clyman?

This sounds very similar to something that is happening in the world, right now...Hmmm.

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Be safe.

Instead of going after Hitler they should've went after Stalin

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You better prepare people becauses it's come to Amerika too. Everything we see today is by design. ALL of it.

He says 4 Mio starved people. Others say up to 12 Mio.! We have a history of American Native people... Stalins wife opposed to the politics of Holodomor and committed suicide. Perhaps THAT changed Stalin's politics - and not the single European....

The most important lesson is that communism should be forbiden as fashism is. How come that we still have communist parties even in democratic countries???

As a historian one should know that a statement like "there was no working class in Russia" is pure bunkum. Yes Russia was an overwhelmingly peasant country but the working class was a significant minority based in the main cities. At the time of the Oct revolution numberred, along with their families, about 25 million. And it was the working class who were in the forefront of the revolution in 1917.

and they say Hitilar rose to power because he was a good speaker.....oy vey lol

It's almost amazing how the entire history of Russia between 1917-1930 is just sketched over. As if Stalin is just the natural progression of the regime of Lenin. There is no struggle within the regime. No New Economic Policy. No struggle over how the USSR is to industrialise. How Stalin initially sided with Buhkarin against the left supporting the rise of the Kulaks "enrich yourselves" etc. Why Stalin ended up pursuing breakneck collectivisation has its origins but, listening to this, you wouldn't have a clue.

He mentions Kulaks but describes them as peasants?! Kulaks were a very distinct class of property and equipment owners. The peasants were those that they employed. He also fails to mention the sabotage committed by the Kulaks in protest of the collectivisation program. There are records detailing the amount of food, livestock and machinery destroyed which exacerbated the famine. Snyder then speaks about Gareth Jones like he was some sort of heroic journalist but fails to mention Gareth's fawning sympathies for Hitler who he had just visited the week before going to the Ukraine. It's noted in Gareth's own diary which is available online. Snyder also fails to mention that Gareth was working for William Hearst, a stanch anti-communist who owned 1/5th of the US media and published works by both Mousilini and Hitler. Cardinal Innitzer. Please Google him! He was a strong supporter of the Nazis up until 1938. To really understand what Snyder is doing here it is more important to listen to what he is *NOT* saying.

People have to gather in Ukraine and create their own monetary system and grow their own food and built their own system of taxation that will build society they live in...separate from the Kiev corrupt regime

Gets the approval of the rabbis before the lecture😂😂, you know it's going to be biased propaganda

it happened because of the samekind of reasons Ethiopia had a famine. Foreign currency.The USSR needed to divert and control grain for export to pay for the US technical help in their industrialization. The tractor factories that later churned out the tanks were built by the US. Ethiopia exported corned beef to the UK for foreign currency to fight its civil war. Churchill caused the West Bengal famine by diverting grain from there . Very myopic lecture. Good but not really informative.