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0/6. A thread: Six Things Progressives Know About Ukraine and Russia. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
1/6. Progressives know that Russian imperialism is driven by oligarchy. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
2/6. Progressives know that the Kremlin is a beacon for white nationalists and homophobes around the world. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
3/6. Progressives know that Ukraine has meaningful elections and Russia does not. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
4/6. Progressives know that the president of Ukraine represents a traditionally oppressed minority. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
5/6. Progressives know that Russian speakers in Ukraine enjoy much more freedom than Russian speakers in Russia. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine
6/6. Progressives know that Ukraine carried out the single greatest act of nuclear non-proliferation in history in 1994, ridding itself of the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. @USProgressives @AOC #Ukraine

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Jan 22
"As we contemplate a Russian invasion of Ukraine, let us begin from the people who are most concerned, the Ukrainians, and with what they have to lose." snyder.substack.com/p/king-of-ukra…
Part 2 of "King of Ukraine" – a small piece of Ukraine's history as we contemplate a Russian invasion. snyder.substack.com/p/king-of-ukra…
Part 3 of "King of Ukraine" – "In the early twentieth century, both Poland and Ukraine were realms of the imagination, neighbors divided not so much by lines on maps as by class resentments." snyder.substack.com/p/king-of-ukra…
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Jan 6
A year ago and more, I wanted to explain how Trump’s big lie would shape our politics. Here is what I wrote then. And here we are.
Trump’s July 2020 "Delay the Election" tweet and the big lie: Trump both revived fascist propaganda and exploited a new age of Internet post-truth. He followed a trail blazed by fascists, but added a twist that is his own. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/0…
"It is unusual for a plan for a coup d’état to be broadcast so clearly... By telling us in advance that he intends to stay in power regardless of the vote count, Trump is... making us understand that we are participants in the unravelling of US democracy." commonwealmagazine.org/not-normal-ele…
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Nov 11, 2021
1/5. Yesterday and today are the anniversary of Kristallnacht. The horrible planned pogrom was preceded and made possible by the creation of second-class citizenship for German Jews, and by the expulsion of stateless Jews from Germany.
2/5. It was preceded and made possible by the destruction of Austria, and the pogroms there against Jews who suddenly lost their citizenship. Remembering Kristallnacht means remembering the importance of civil rights for citizens and human rights for all. nybooks.com/articles/2013/…
3/5. Herschel Grynszpan and his family were victims of a particular tactic that Nazi Germany used against Jews: the deprivation of citizenship.
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Sep 4, 2021
1/7. Nearly two years in, nearly 700,000 dead, and no free at-home covid tests?
2/7. In Vienna, you get free covid tests when you go to the pharmacy.
3/7. In the U.S., my students from places like Ukraine and Lithuania are astonished that we don’t have free at-home covid tests.
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Jul 24, 2021
General Milley told aides that Trump’s big lie was “a Reichstag moment.” A big lie promises violence; a failed coup sets a precedent. These pieces on emergency politics from the last four years anticipated January 6th, and might help in years to come.
"The Reichstag fire shows how quickly a modern republic can be transformed into an authoritarian regime." nybooks.com/daily/2017/02/…
In the Reichstag moment, the leader will create and use crisis to undermine democracy. When that happens, we have to mobilize and protest, vote and be organized. Talking with Bill Maher about #OnTyranny in 2017:
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Jul 8, 2021
0/5. I am very proud of five forewords to central twentieth-century texts about the human response to oppression that I have been invited to write in the past couple of years.
Foreword 1/5: To Václav Havel's "Power of the Powerless," written in communist Czechoslovakia in 1978, a timeless discussion of individuality and responsibility (Nov 2018). penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/602111/t…
Foreword 2/5: To Józef Czapski's "Inhuman Land," an account of the wartime Soviet Union by a great artist and one of the most interesting figures of the twentieth century (Dec. 2018).
nyrb.com/products/inhum… and lareviewofbooks.org/article/pursui…!
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