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Yes, Russia was not invited to the conference, but that was in part due to it signing a separate peace with Germany and exiting the war. The Russians ceded the territory of what became much of Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and part of Latvia to Germany. Further, per the treaty Finland, Estonia, and most of Ukraine became self governing, i.e. outside of both German and Russian control. Though the Allies didn't have to do so, it declared the treaty invalid and ended German control, which created Poland and Lithuania. The Red Army then re-took Ukraine and part of Belarus as well as tried to retake Poland, losing the Polish-Soviet War. It also tried to retake Estonia and Latvia.

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The analysis of Russian power holds up pretty well in April of 2024.

Interesting to see that Kotkin is not a fan of Hungary having an independent idea of how it wants to conduct it's affairs, and keep its identity intact. I'm genuinely disappointed.

Highly educational

10:02 finally….lol

Jargon salad spoken with earnestness but utterly lacking in cogency or clarity.

My WWI and Treaty of Versailles go to is usually Margret MacMillan but Prof Kotkin is as good a lecturer as has ever lived.

As of 2023, Germany's Green Party is doing an outstanding job keeping Center Left sane.

The way I like to think about 'freedom' is being able to live life as much as possible on your own terms that can include being the 'artist' of your life or sticking to a rigid code.

Excellent, start to finish.

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i take it Latvia is a very subdued culture.....

Chinese middle class is just slaves with reasonable money. They will not have any gut to change system.

Small point, apologies, I think Russia was on its back during Bismarck because it lost the Crimean War near Persia fighting the great game.

Snyder, what we are interested in is which branch of your ancestors mixed with monkeys? And yours intellectual regurgitation about Europeans and, above all, about Russians and the Slavic world is of no interest to anyone.

Always on point Mr. Kotkin. Great analysis and comparisons. Listen to the message people not the accent, he delivers it in.

I found myself wondering whether Professor Snyder, instead of utilizing his own rather arcane terminology, i.e., “the politics of eternity,” might better have utilized Isaiah Berlin’s: lack of historicism, scholarship or tradition! If there was anything Berlin was good at, despite his machine-gun diction and lugubrious Latvian/Oxford inflection, it was clarity, which is now very much needed, and appreciated by this listener!

After the example of the UK nobody in 2023 wishes to leave the EU, not even La Penn. Again the UK does a favour to Europe at great cost to ourselves. I hope the EU is suitably grateful?

My favourite speaker of all

Comically no mention of financing and national block-busting and carpet bagging by banking interests and their trumpeters. As once I cried for humanity, now I laugh at it's folly and blindness. And so let it suffer more for which it will never learn, while the faux smart have warm smoke blown up their butts by mild mannered sock puppets.

This guy presents history the way he and his kind choose to.

I'd like to hear his opinion about the US regime destroying the middle class in America today....

He underestimated the danger of Trump.

I like this speech.

Side note: listening to this 4 yr.s later and knowing his observations on ‘current Russia’ would be different now in the midst of the Russian illegal and horrific current war on Ukraine caused by an unprovoked attack by Putin/Russia!Putin is a murderer…an international criminal.

We should take note of Kotkin. With Russia at war with Ukraine and the various supporting powers we are on the cusp of a great power war once again. History tells us that this is when fascism will likely raise its head again, I see the Kyiv or Warsaw regimes and it’s not so hard to see this happening, according to ample (non Russian) documentation, Kyiv was already some way down that path at the time of the invasion. It’s an unpopular conclusion but the pre invasion reports in UK and EC parliaments confirm I am correct.

It's unfair to characterize Israel as not-peace-loving. Israel doesn't get to choose between war and peace. For Israel, it's fight or die.

It's wrong to describe the failed US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, as "colonial wars". We had no more interest in colonizing those places than we fought WW2 to colonize Germany or Japan.

Great lecture, this man is the definition of intelligence and knowledge.

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It's to be expected that such a man claims there is no communism, coming from a country where it's citizens are voting themselves free welfare, social security, veterans benefits, and trying to get free college and student loan erasure. One the other hand, they are replacing themselves who won't breed enough with those that will invade from the south. This only at such a point of deluded "exceptionalism", does it appear a common infection even by the Professor, that the terminal moralities of Progressivism and egalitarianism, see no threat in their own self destruction. They will be clueless when no one wants their dollars or a new system emerges, and the values they had the luxury to have blind them into violence or worse. Printing their way into ever escaping idealist dreams with endless money no different than when Stalin abused his slave labour economy for ever increasing fantastical endeavours. Kotkin too appears a victim of his environment. The blind spot is visible in his character too. He thinks America is exceptional, when America was a fluke in time, a rising power with good ideas. Now it's people have been defeated by success. 31 trillion in debt. Communism isn't gone, it takes on the words of democracy so that it's tantrums are less destructive. The camps and executions are replaced by bans and firings. If only he could see the actual process, perhaps he would be scared of what we are today. The soviets collapsed and the US will fall under its own weight too, but the entitled exceptionalism could be the venom that truly collapses America when faced with adversity and useless values. Bidens bad move with weaponising the Dollar against Russia and stealing 300 billion form their Forex reserves has started the certain efforts of the non US world to pool their efforts for an opposing world currency. When America cannot export it's inflation, it's dinosaur illusory values are what will kill the US, not whatever history will claim took it down.

This one has me on the verge of rethinking or actually rethinking my tendency in recent years to lean away from "liberal democracy" and towards "illiberalism," even if having public order and public safety (things we are losing in the U.S.) might mean inconveniencing people (like me, for example). So I say let's go ahead and have "liberal democracy" American-style, as if there were a choice, but let's also get serious about public order and public safety. Too many people are not flourishing; indeed too many people, daily, are victims of violence..... And if it is true, as I heard an American journalist (WP) say on TV recently, that in China there are "concentration camps," even a "genocide," then of course the "China Model" of public order and public safety might be too strict. It was said that Berlin did not really grasp the Holocaust till 1944. That may have been because he did not trust the media or the "rumors." And indeed I myself find it hard to believe that in the 21st Century, we again have "concentration camps" and "genocide" going on anywhere, especially in a society that has done so much in the last forty years to eliminate poverty. As for China's apparent insistence that the people of Tibet learn Chinese, not exclusively Chinese, but that they become full Chinese citizens, that at first glance sounds reasonable. We are at a time though when what actually develops in China, during the next thirty years, is going to be very interesting. There is a great deal to be said for this 5000 years old civilization that has overcome so much, in spite of its current difficulties, of which no country is immune.

No it will be a curse to become more like germany it has already become we need have stron ghcristian pro american russia and achieve what htey did for ourselves back in the days ! fuck up all the rest with our pitential and resource england germany especially are accursed kotkin goes to bukenwald soon !

Snyder and Kotkin - The best minds.

Kotkin is the best, but why is he speaking broken English?

Great lecture. Brilliant. Thought provoking, but… Russia took on debt of USSR? Thats why it got the right of veto in UN? Tsarist russia, then Soviets and then russia again, aggresively anexed, destabilized, robbed neighbouring nations, murdered the elites of those nations. Now they should pay soviet debts??? This shows in clear and obvious manner how western powers treat eastern european nations. First we have to acknowledge it. Then we have to change it. Ukrainians already do this with great success, but also for a big price.

Yeah, amazing: since 2018 the EU has neither solved the immigration nor the Russian problem so they are stuck with the EU problem.

This was great, except at the end, where he's far too uncritical of the EU. I realise this is four years old, but I wonder what he thinks about the profoundly anti-democratic and authoritarian diktats (pushed by WHO and WEF) concerning covid and digital passports, lockdowns and the devastation of the Dutch farmers. And regarding Hungary, many feel that it is actually the EU who are the dictators here, pushing a liberal, anti-family and anti-Christian agenda onto a nation that is sick and tired of being controlled by outside forces.

What kind of accent Kotkin has got?

Russians, not Putin and his cronies, can consider rejoining the West and hopefully peace will come again to Europe again.

I always learn so much from Stephen Kotkin. His lectures are so on point and force a reality that we all should be aware of.

& here we are....NAILED IT! 🔨 Red alert! demonetize!

I still tell people all the time. we operate like Russ. & still won't leave the Google bubble n do a little research

This lecture brings me back to college - a professor making SIMPLE points with their own made up jargon and lingo which makes it sound complicated and as if it has more WORTH than your own thoughts. Bunch of garbage - bring Kotkin back he doesn't play these tricks he just talks.

Insightful

Pretty boring man. Some parts are interesting but in global scale we call it blah-blah-blah....

Good talker he is. But too much propaganda in his arguments. When he says the international law about some events it makes me wanna puke.

Snyderverse is so clear and understandable, it helps me to rebuild my worldview fundamentals. Thank you Timothy Snyder.

The eternity of timothybility is inevitable. The essence of Snyder is that speaking publicly (when a lot of people try to follow) is very much fun.