MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show February 22, 2022 02:39:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
peacekeepers, requesting russian insistence, there s a whole smoke and mirrors thing going on the you and i know that is not true. who s the fooling with this? it s a great question, it s intended for the russian people. he was addressing the russian nation tonight. he wasn t addressing the he got a little ahead of the i watched all three interventions the other day. first the security council meeting, i can listen to russian and understand at. and then they said let s just like you reported. to approve this. he gave his address to the nation and the two leaders of the two peoples republics. by the way i want to focus on. that peoples republic s. that s what stalin called his regimes in eastern europe when he installed them after 1945. and then he just sat down and sign the decrees recognizing them as independent countries.
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red army, the bolsheviks. but even in the early days of the soviet union, the bolsheviks knew that ukraine national identity had to be acknowledged and accounted for. ukraine had to have its own republic. [inaudible] as a federation. ukraine was always a challenge. it was a challenge for the unity of the bolsheviks, the soviet union, and they always had a different sense of themselves. they were a westward looking, they talked about democracy, even back then. and from the very beginning, stalin sought to destroy them. stolen organized an artificial famine in ukraine that killed nearly 4 million people. fast forward that story today, ukraine remains a problem for putin, because ukraine aspires to democracy and aspires to sovereignty. it does not want to be part of a new russian empire, and that is a challenge to putin s version of autocracy. the idea that only he is in
fact. ukraine s national poet was born as a surf and bought his freedom when he moved to st. petersburg. it s a nation that has always had a sense of itself being opposed to nobility, the aristocracy, the empire. its identity was always very closely connected to rebellion. sometimes in a sense, but sometimes in a positive sense, ukrainians made several attempts to become independent to tie into the russian revolution in 1917, there was briefly a ukrainian state. and then lost a war with the red army, the bolsheviks. but even in the early days of the soviet union, the bolsheviks knew that ukraine national identity had to be acknowledged and accounted for. ukraine had to have its own republic. [inaudible] as a federation. ukraine was always a challenge. it was a challenge for the unity of the bolsheviks, the soviet union, and they always