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Serhii Plokhy
Historian
Serhii Plokhy appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, geopolitics, history. Lex describes Serhii Plokhy as historian.
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2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast / March 4, 2024 / Episode #415
Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War
Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.
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What happened during World War II? Was that once the Germans started to run out of manpower, they created foreign legion groups. But because those people were not Aryans, they couldn't be trusted. So they were put under the command of Heinrich Himmler and the commando SS, and became known as SS Waffen units, and one of such units was created in Ukraine. The following is a conversation with Serhii Plokhy, a historian at Harvard University and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, also at Harvard. As a historian, he specializes in the history of Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Ukraine. He wrote a lot of great books on Ukraine and Russia, the Soviet Union, on Slavic peoples in general across centuries, on Chernobyl and nuclear disasters, and on the current war in Ukraine, a book titled The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.
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Serhii Plokhy
Historian
Serhii Plokhy appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, geopolitics, history. Lex describes Serhii Plokhy as historian.
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March 4, 2024 to March 4, 2024
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