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Preview: Ukraine: Conversation with Professor Serhii Plokhy of Harvard University regarding the misperceptions of Ukraine before the 2022 invasion - especially the Kremlin's ignorance of how Ukraine would respond. More later.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Preview: Ukraine: Conversation with Professor Serhii Plokhy of Harvard University regarding the misperceptions of Ukraine before the 2022 invasion - especially the Kremlin's ignorance of how Ukraine would respond. More later.

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ads. This is John Batcher, a conversation with Professor Seri Ploki of Harvard University.

0:36.7

His book, The Russo-Eukonian War, The Return of History.

0:41.4

From the beginning, there have been mischaracterizations and misunderstandings about Ukraine

0:46.2

not only by NATO in the United States but also I learned from the professor by Moscow.

0:53.4

Herein, the professor describes how what was presumed

0:57.1

to be a divided country after the Crimea takeover in 2014

1:02.4

was not.

1:04.0

Professor Ploke explains there's much more of this later.

1:08.0

Seri Ploke, professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University,

1:12.0

the Russo-Ukrainean War, the beginning, the bad

1:16.2

bad perception by the Kremlin.

1:20.4

More of this later. This is one of the stereotypes of Ukraine that existed and existed for a long period of time.

1:29.0

If you look at the religious map of Ukraine, you will find that the so-called Catholics are really in a few

1:38.2

Western regions of Ukraine. This is not half of Ukraine by any standard and also the Catholics are so called

1:46.0

Greek Catholics so there this is a church that was created in the 16th century and it's a hybrid church between

1:55.4

Orthodoxy and Catholicism. So Ukraine is much more divided and much more united

2:01.9

so than the ideas of division on the religious basis, linguistic basis,

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