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Lies, once you do something, for example, storm a capitol, once you do something, that makes it more true, right? so the politicians tell the big lie, the ones who are brought in, once we do something, or in this book, for example, once you kill on the basis of the big lie, then the big lie really has to be true. one of the things that i have sort of taken with me from bloodlands, is the idea that people need to be erased and countries need to be erased and certain identities need to be erased for the purposes of other countries, other leaders, other imperatives and so you know, talking for example about the mass murder of the polish elite, so that the polish people would somehow be erased from history, that the idea of poland could be replaced, subverted into something more useful for the attackers that kind of eliminationist planning, not just genocidal but literally to erase the idea of a people, we are seeing that so evertly in the way that putin is talking
Relevant because of the war in ukraine now. this week, professor snyder published an updated paper back version of bloodlands this one has a new afterword that offers a contemporary look at the work and professor snyder reflects on his contribution to popularizing the big lie, in former president trump s effort to overthrow the u.s. government last year persuading his followers to believe the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen even though there was never, ever any evidence to support. that snyder says in the new afterword quote, a term that originates with hitler became central to american political discourse after i applied it to trump s claim to have won an election he had lost. the concept of the big lie, which i reintroduced into discussion in 2019 and 2020 helped millions of people to see how mendacity of a certain scale affects politics over time making democracy ever more difficult. joining us now is timothy
Snyder, professor of history at yale university, the author of bloodlands europe between hitler and stalin and nice to have you in person. i don t do this anymore. nice to see you. nice to see you. let me ask you about that last quote that i just read. mendacity of a certain scale, how mendacity of a certain scale affects politics over time. can you just tell us what you mean. well, that s the public relations advice, is from hitler, hitler says if you tell a lie, it s of a certain scale, that s big enough, people won t believe that you could conceive them on your scale and since they believe it and take continue in first, they don t want to disbelieve it later on and becomes part of their life and an alternative reality and reshape politics and substantiate itself in memory and policy and you act as if it is true and you move on to do things as though it were true. so in our example, if we pretend that people won the election in