The Russia-Ukraine crisis and how Ukrainians are finding a new sense of national identity
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ukraine has a long, fraught history with Russia and the Soviet Union. How do Ukrainians see themselves now? Vitaly Chernetsky, Timothy Snyder and Sevgil Musayeva join Meghna Chakrabarti.
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| 1:00.1 | Ukraine is not yet dead, nor its glory and freedom. |
| 1:04.6 | Goes the first line of an 1862 poem written by Pavlo Chubiansky. |
| 1:10.3 | At the time, half the country belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, half to Imperial Russia. |
| 1:16.5 | Chubiansky's poem was later paired with a musical score and in 1917, for a brief three |
| 1:22.5 | years, it became the anthem of an independent Ukraine. |
| 1:33.4 | In 1920, Ukraine was made part of the Soviet Union. |
| 1:38.1 | The anthem was officially discouraged, and under Moscow's rule, millions died in successive |
| 1:43.9 | wars, enforced famines and gulags. |
| 1:55.9 | But ever since the Maidan protests of 2013 and 2014 and Russia's invasion of Ukrainian |
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