Wars, Politics and Education
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Join Victor Davis Hanson for his weekend edition with Sami Winc. They compare Soviet-Finnish War (1939-40) with the Ukraine War, the city-states of Ancient Greece, and examine the traditional humanist education.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to our listeners of the Victor Davis Hansen show. This is the Saturday edition where |
| 0:08.6 | we look at something a little different, usually something historical and cultural. I know |
| 0:14.2 | that we have the Ukrainian war going on and we're going to take some time on it but we're |
| 0:19.0 | going to do a comparison to the Finnish Soviet Finnish war in 1939 to 1940. We have a lot |
| 0:27.7 | on the agenda. We're going to take a little excursion into Greece and then talk a little bit |
| 0:33.0 | about education. So we hope everybody looks forward to that. But first let's listen to these messages |
| 0:38.6 | and we'll be right back. We're back and Victor, I know that the Ukrainian war is weighing heavily |
| 0:53.4 | on your mind and you requested this actually today. Quite often I do this topics for our Saturday |
| 1:01.9 | edition but you wanted to talk a little bit about the Ukrainian war and the Finnish Soviet war in |
| 1:08.8 | 1939 and I think some comparison. So why don't we go ahead and just let you shoot on that. |
| 1:17.1 | Well we're trying to make sense of this February 24th, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and we're |
| 1:28.3 | looking for examples and one of the best examples that can guide us, you talk to Smutandas, |
| 1:34.6 | that's a fancy Latin expression for the necessary changes being made, ie. across time and space, was |
| 1:40.9 | at the end of the month, November 30th 1939, the Soviet Union and all of its glory. Remember this |
| 1:49.3 | was right during its non-aggression pack, the Molotov ribbon-trop non-aggression pack. So it was |
| 1:56.0 | in league with Hitler and it invaded Finland. Why did it invade Finland? Remember Finland didn't |
| 2:02.0 | exist for centuries as an independent autonomous country. It was either run by Sweden or was part |
| 2:10.1 | of Russia and then during the Bolshevik revolution of 1912 it broke away and got its autonomy |
| 2:16.5 | and there were disputed lands where there were Finnish speakers but the Russians claimed that |
| 2:20.8 | they were strategic importance, they wanted them. So essentially they gave an ultimatum to the |
| 2:25.5 | Finns. And this is important because it's again big Russia, small Ukraine, small Finland and it was |
| 2:34.1 | easy walk-through, easy walk-through, expectation and it was fierce resistance, fierce resistance. |
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