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Rory Flynn
@RoryFly48410259
Writer, government retiree, baseball fanatic, piano player, ti leaf fancier.
Sep 25, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Today is a good day to ponder Ukraine and take this assaulted nation seriously--something Donald Trump seems incapable of doing.
A bit of history helps. Yale professor Timothy Snyder's book Bloodlands (2010) is highly recommended. The systematic violence examined in Bloodlands began with the Russian Revolution of 1917. During the ensuing civil war, anarchists, Bolsheviks and Whites all commandeered food from peasant farmers. A national famine resulted in 1921. An estimated 1.5 people died in Ukraine.