Historian Yaroslav Hrytsak about national trauma, seven waves of genocide, who is losing and why, and the main Ukrainian resource in the war of attrition...
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If nations had a passport, the passport of the Ukrainian nation would have the date 2014, when the war in Donbas began. It was the war that accelerated the maturation of the Ukrainian nation. Wars not only create nations, they create civilizations. The well-known historian Yaroslav Hrytsak never ceases to say that yes, war is a huge catastrophe and a huge... chance.
Yaroslav Hrytsak is a Ukrainian historian and publicist. Doctor of History, Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
A man whom today we can call one of the few intellectual authorities of the nation. "Gromada believes that his understanding
of the war can be extremely important and useful for its readers...
A well-known scientist never ceases to say: yes, the war is a huge catastrophe and a huge... chance.
- From the point of view of history, this war puts Ukraine at the center of world politics," says Yaroslav Hrytsak. - "Just like the First and Second World Wars. And we understand that the fate of the world is being decided in and around Ukraine. However, there is a difference: in the first two wars, we were objects, and now we have become a subject of global processes...
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