Blaming Lenin News Today

>> reporter: that seems like the direction hes going in. in fact, this may turn out to be a rather maximalist statement, rather than just recognizing the independence of those two tiny parts of ukraine, this seems to be president putin laying out the history, blaming lenin and stalin for creating in his words a ukraine that was part, you know, part a product of the first world war, and parts being shared with germany, and other parts being parcelled out from poland. this seems to be putin laying...

As Ukraine faces an uncertain future amid the ongoing invasion by Russia, historians around the world are looking to the past to better understand the motivations of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the future. Few are as well-placed to analyze how Putin’s interpretation of history is playing into the current war as the University of Toronto’sAs Ukraine faces an uncertain future amid the ongoing invasion by Russia, historians around the world are looking to the past to better understand t...

As Ukraine faces an uncertain future amid the ongoing invasion by Russia, historians around the world are looking to the past to better understand the motivations of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the future.