99: Ukrainian History 101

History has been used and misused in many ways as part of the Russo-Ukraine War. Russia has justified its aggression through bizarre appeals to medieval Princes. Ukrainian units name themselves for Scythians and Cossacks. We run through an overview of Ukrainian history and pre-history.

00:02:40 - The Proto-Indo-Europeans through the Greeks

00:17:24 - Turks and Slavs

00:23:58 - Kyivan Rus

00:38:57 - Ukraine after the Mongols

00:44:22 - The rise of the Cossacks

00:56:49 - From Khmelnytsky to Mazepa

01:08:39 - Poland and Ukraine fall together

01:15:08 - The Long 19th Century

01:25:53 - Between World Wars

01:38:16 - The post-Stalin Soviet Union

01:44:19 - Ukrainian Independence

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