2/2: #Ukraine: #Russia: #Stalin: #Kutuzov: The legend of Kutuzov and the four-century-long entanglement of Crimea, the Tatars, the Tsars, the Soviets and Kyiv. Stephen Kotkin, Hoover Institution.
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2/2: #Ukraine: #Russia: #Stalin: #Kutuzov: The legend of Kutuzov and the four-century-long entanglement of Crimea, the Tatars, the Tsars, the Soviets and Kyiv. Stephen Kotkin, Hoover Institution.
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| 0:37.0 | I'm John Betchler, visiting with Professor Stephen Kotkin of the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:41.0 | who in his review of an excellent sounding new book is a document, 800 pages, |
| 0:49.0 | of the life and times of the man who vanquished Napoleon in 1812 and left us General Katusev in 1813. |
| 0:59.0 | His portrait, perhaps cross-eyed, perhaps Ponche, was on the wall in Joseph Stalin's office during the great patriotic war. |
| 1:08.0 | And we can presume that Vladimir Putin knows of that portrait. |
| 1:12.0 | He still possesses the Kremlin where it originated and saved the Soviet Empire, saved Russia, saved Moscow |
| 1:22.0 | from the great patriotic war, from the invaders from Germany, as Kutusov saved Russia, from the invaders from France. |
| 1:31.0 | Now the question of the invaders from Moscow to Ukraine, how are these countries tied together by memory? |
| 1:39.0 | Professor, what we have is events that took place before Kutusov's birth. |
| 1:44.0 | I believe in the 16th century and then again in the 20th century, revealing the connection, the pragmatic connection between those who controlled Ukraine as we understand it in two parts, |
| 1:57.0 | east of the Niappur and west of the Niappur. |
| 2:01.0 | And there was a decision made by the headman to join the Tsar against Poland early on. |
| 2:07.0 | Is that still resonate in the memory of the Ukrainians and Russians fighting today? |
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