Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
It is often said that \u201cRussia is a country with an unpredictable past.\u201d Such distortions of history can lead to trouble, as the world witnessed last year when Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of Ukraine as an attempt to \u201cdenazify\u201d the neighboring country\u2014one with a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust. As Megan Buskey writes in her new memoir, \u201cUkraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return\u201d: \u201cHow could a country know itself unless it knew all the things it had been?\u201d
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Megan, a nonfiction writer and former Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, who has studied and written about the country for two decades. They discussed her book, the use and abuse of history in Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the role of family histories in countering those false narratives. They also talked about the best way to get a Polish archive to give you the documents you need.
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