JP Himka and the Rest of Ukrainian History: Intro - part 1

In this next series of videos on Ukraine, I look into parts of its history that were deemphisized, misrepresented or deleted entirely in Plokhy's book, using videos of John-Paul Himka, professor of Ukrainian history from the Univ of Alberta. Himka's history is definitely mainstream, but, perhaps a product of his US midwestern/Canadian roots, his rather naive innocence regarding what can be mentioned and what can't in today's Holocausted politically-correct America makes him a useful guide through matters involving western Ukraine as the source of much of the country's nationalist and Jewish activism among other things. Given today's Zelensky-Kolomoisky-Azov Battalion-Putin Jewish-neonazi connections and narrative-building battle on both sides, it's an important window into what is really going on in Ukraine (and Washington and Moscow) today.

These first two parts serve as an introduction to Himka and to Ukrainian Jewish history, so obviously stripped-down to antisemitism in Plokhy's book.