What the world can learn from Ukraine's fight for democracy | Olesya Khromeychuk

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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“A flourishing democracy next door is a scary thing for an autocrat,” says Ukrainian historian Olesya Khromeychuk. Detailing the history of Ukraine’s long struggle for sovereignty and freedom — against Russian tsars, communist dictators and now the Kremlin’s army — she shares three lessons anybody can use to join the global fight for democracy.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
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0:11.0	I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
0:13.7	Ukraine may be a fledgling democracy,
0:16.2	but historian and writer Alessia Chromachokes
0:19.1	says that because it's fighting so hard
0:21.4	to preserve its system, Ukraine actually has a lot to teach the rest of us about democracy.
0:27.2	In her 2023 talk from Ted Democracy, Kromachoke offers the lessons we could learn from Ukraine to strengthen our voices wherever we are in the world.
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1:57.0	In Ukrainian, the word for a vote is the same as that for a voice,
2:04.7	holus.
2:05.9	So to cast your vote for someone
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