Timothy Snyder: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

[kingpoostick]

A American lecturing people on Europe has has probely hasnt even been to Europe.

[tupolevsoundcrash]

@kingpoostick Read the book before commenting son, your 21 and English what would you know?

[kingpoostick]

@tupolevsoundcrash No thank you, i dont want to waste my time reading a silly yank opinion on WW2 which was largly a european matter, also since the English are known for being intelligent and they made the world we live in today i have came to this conclusion, your arrogant.

[ursusplacidus]

@kingpoostick As an European (a Pole to be precise), who also had read one of his previous books "The reconstruction of nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999", I can assure you that this particular Yank is a brilliant scholar, who understands history of central and eastern Europe better than any other western historian I know (including N. Davies) and even many Polish ones.

[kingpoostick]

@ursusplacidus Yeah well im just sick of yanks period this guy maybe good but in general yanks are clueless.

[cjtyrrell1969]

@kingpoostick Arrogant?? Wow - thats the Pot calling the Kettle black. I have always admired and respected the English. However, the sun was setting on the Empire by WWII and the British were getting their asses kicked all around the world by the Germans and the Japanese. I can only assume your bitter about your countries fortunes, loss of Empire, and relegation as a second rate power after WWII. Two words: Lend Lease. You're welcome.

I have come to this conclusion: You are ungrateful

[TEPM0METP]

Stalin was the great and invincible!

And to the "millions of victims of" terrible Stalinist regime ", it is all nonsense Solzhenitsyn and other enemies of the USSR Feeding America ... Is not it obvious? :) Yes it was a difficult time, our country to industrialize, since we would have lost the war, and miserable Frenchman, the British and Americans would smelyais over us ... But we always defend our land and other choice for us and our hero Stalin was not.

Hello from Ukraine :)

[HaulinHearse]

@TEPM0METP Are you retarded?

[cjtyrrell1969]

@TEPM0METP Damn it's hard to believe anyone in the Ukraine would be a Stalinophile. I was under the impression that the people of the Ukraine initially greeted the Nazi's as liberators until the SS started doing their thing as they believed the Slavs were sub-human. Ok - I stand corrected. I always thought Stalin could give a rats ass about the people of the USSR; it was about him retaining power at all cost and eliminating all opposition as he formed a cult of personality... Party on...WTF?????

[sylwiatime]

@cjtyrrell1969 Well, after Stalin starved the Eastern Ukraine he brought people from Russia to replace the dead Ukrainians. Those tend to be Stalinophiles. Ukrainians are usually those who lived in Western part of the country which was in Poland at that time.

[TheUkr2011]

The delirium of the madman, is a pity naive Americans on whom palm off similar bosh.

[c70m68]

Almost finished the book. My deepest admiring for Mr. Snyder.

[lappm]

I just picked up the book. Can hardly put it down. The blend of facts (especially statistics) and personal accounts ("Now we will live" repeated a little boy before he died of starvation), is excellent.

In watching this video, it is striking that here is a guy who consumed all these horrible stories but, rather than becoming cold, he can't continue his lecture at 29:30 because the suffering of the dog.

[S0chan]

After this lecture I think I will most certainly purchase the book.

Such insight in such a small amount of time.