Timothy Snyder
Person on 3 sites
American historian of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust; author of Bloodlands and On Tyranny.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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11 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Letting Russia defeat Ukraine would likely push other middle powers to build nuclear weapons, so Ukraine holding Russia back also holds back nuclear proliferation (opens korrents.com)
“If Russia is allowed to defeat Ukraine, other middle powers will likely draw the conclusion that they need to build nuclear weapons in order to defend themselves. By holding back Russia, Ukraine is also holding back…”
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States are sovereign, and one state should not seize territory from another by aggression (opens korrents.com)
“Ukraine is defending the basic principle of international law, which is that states are sovereign and that one state should not seize territory from another by way of aggression.”
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Fascism works as a tool to divert people toward a false us and them, away from the real division between ordinary people and those who have their hands in their wallets. (opens korrents.com)
“The fascism is a tool to divide, to divert, to direct people towards a false us and them. Whereas the real us and them is that they have their hands in our wallet.”
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Letting Russia defeat Ukraine would likely push other middle powers to build nuclear weapons, so Ukraine holding Russia back also holds back nuclear proliferation (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Homage to Catalonia (opens rcmnd.app)
“The reason why I am so fond of Homage to Catalonia, and see it as an even more relevant precursor to dissent, is that in it you can see a man of the Left learning to make the distinction that breaks down the Left with…”
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The Captive Mind (opens rcmnd.app)
“Milosz tried to explain – as the title suggests – how thinking people could accept communism from inside the communist system.”
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The Church and the Left (opens rcmnd.app)
“In The Church and the Left Michnik argues for an untraditional alliance. He says that the left has to talk to the Polish Catholic Church, especially after the Vatican's internal reform [in 1965].”
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Homage to Catalonia (opens rcmnd.app)