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May 20 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
"People disagree, often vehemently, over what constitutes fascism. But today’s Russia meets most of the criteria that scholars tend to apply. 1/3
"It has a cult around a single leader, Vladimir Putin. It has a cult of the dead, organized around World War II. It has a myth of a past golden age of imperial greatness, to be restored by a war of healing violence — the murderous war on Ukraine." 2/3
nytimes.com/2022/05/19/opi…
"Fascists calling other people 'fascists' is fascism taken to its illogical extreme as a cult of unreason. It is a final point where hate speech inverts reality and propaganda is pure insistence." "Ukrainians... call it 'ruscism.'" 3/3
nytimes.com/2022/04/22/mag…

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May 17
It is senseless to shelter Putin from the sense that he is losing. He will figure that out for himself, and he will act to protect himself. 1/17
Russians are not cornered. The Russian army is not cornered. It is an invading force. When defeated, units just retreat across the border to Russia. 2/17
Putin rules in virtual reality, where there is always an escape route. He cannot be cornered in Ukraine, because Ukraine is a real place. 3/17
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May 7
#OnTyranny #Ukraine audio edition, adding 20 new chapters in the style of a podcast on the history, ideology, and politics of Russia's war on Ukraine:
timothysnyder.org/books/on-tyran…
All proceeds to humanitarian assistance in #Ukraine.
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Apr 19
Available today: I've recorded a much expanded audiobook of #OnTyranny, adding 20 new lessons on the history, ideology, and politics of Russia's war on Ukraine. From @PRHAudio. All proceeds to humanitarian assistance in #Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
#OnTyrannyUkraineEdition
timothysnyder.org/books/on-tyran…
Lesson 1: Connections: Why On Tyranny
2: A Twenty-First Century Test
3: Fascist Eternity
4: The Politics of Time
5: Vikings, Khazars, and Slavs
6: Valdemar, Volodymyr, and Vladimir
7: Renaissance, Reformation, Rebellion
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Lesson 8: Colonists and Cossacks
9: The Beautiful Language
10: Nation as Culture and Choice
11: Brotherland
12: Communist Colonialism
13: Nazi Colonialism
14: 1938, 1939, and 1940
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Apr 13
On 19 August 1939 Stalin's Soviet Union began a new era in economic cooperation with Nazi Germany, in which Moscow would supply Berlin with oil. 1/
Four days later Berlin and Moscow signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the secret protocol of which provided for the division of eastern Europe into spheres of influence. 2/
On 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany invaded Poland, followed by its Soviet ally on 17 September 1939. 3/
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Apr 2
I am getting weary of reading articles in which Americans advise other Americans about how to negotiate the future of #Ukraine. (Thread) 1/
#WestSplaining
We are not fighting in Ukraine, and so we do not decide when the fighting stops, or on what terms. 2/
#UkraineWar #RussianUkrainianWar
This war would have been avoided had #Russia treated #Ukraine as a sovereign state, and negotiated with it. 3/
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Mar 28
1/30 Putin is responsible for the invasion, and must redistribute blame for its failure. After a month, some vectors of discord in the Russian government have suggested themselves. (Thread)
2/30 I summarize here from open sources certain unusual features of this war. These are odd facts that would seem to suggest prior, or provoke future, dissension among Russian leaders. I draw no conclusions, and will at most suggest where to look.
3/30 Putin is the supreme leader. The invasion of Ukraine was predicated on his idea that there was no Ukrainian state or nation. His views are widely repeated, though perhaps not as widely shared. They were immediately proven wrong.
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