Re: Scott Ritter Show: Roots of Ukrainian nationalism. How West provoked biggest war in Europe since WW2 Archived Message
Posted by Dovetail Joint on March 9, 2023, 3:27 pm, in reply to "Scott Ritter Show: Roots of Ukrainian nationalism. How West provoked biggest war in Europe since WW2"
Much Ukrainian nationalism, along with many others types, German and Zionist among them, have their roots in the coffee houses and beer cellars of Vienna, Austria. This is because Austria/Hungary was the archetypal central european multi-ethnic empire. There were powerful centralizing forces and powerful decentralizing forces at work at the same time, prior to WW1 and especially after WW1 when Austria/Hungary was smashed to pieces. Suddenly every 'people' wanted their own exclusive ethnic state. It's not surprising that ethnicity became the defining label and crucial identity of the era. Then at the extreme end came the 'normal' prejudices linked to 'racial hygene' and the science of eugenics, which everybody was into over a centur ago. Most of this stuff was fashionable codswallop, but that didn't stop people from believing in it with close to religious fervour.
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