CW: This episode contains frank discussions of murder, torture, and sexual assault of both adults and children, primarily in the context of anti-semitic pogroms against Jewish people. Please proceed carefully through the episode or skip it entirely if any of these things may be difficult for you to hear. To signal the depravity of racist language in quotes used in this episode we have used a bleep instead of "contextually stating" the slur or "n-wording" it.

 

Jeremy leads us in a discussion of the early history of what we now know as Ukraine, all the way through the early twentieth century, before taking a depressing turn into the brief period in which nationalists controlled the region from 1918-1921. This brief and tragic era of Ukraine is dominated by a “civil war” and countless pogroms, primarily perpetrated against Jewish residents of the area. We do our best to lighten the material in the first half of the episode, but honestly, there’s nothing to be joked about in the latter half.

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Resource Links - Soviet Books:

Ismail Badiou Soviet Book Archive (over a thousand soviet era books!)

Lazy Izdihar Soviet Book Archive

Sources:

The Gates of Europe by Serhii Plokhy

In the Midst of Civilized Europe by Jeffrey Veidlinger

Medieval Ukraine by Charles River Editors

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Written and read by Jeremy

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