A Pleasant Conversation with a Subscriber about History (22.12.2021)
A conversation between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and a pro-Russian subscriber: from the antisemitic tropes of interwar nationalist propaganda (“Judeo-Bolshevism”) to the diplomacy of World War II — the 1941 Mayski–Sikorski agreement that de facto annulled the 1939 Soviet-German partition of Poland, and the 1943 rupture of Soviet-Polish relations over the Katyn question.
Key moments
- 00:48 Bandera and the attitude to Jews; Aleksandr Gogun's books
- 02:47 The 'Judeo-Bolshevism' trope: equating Jewry with Bolshevism
- 03:09 Dribnytsia: the 'Jews = Bolsheviks' claim is statistically inaccurate
- 06:25 The Mayski–Sikorski agreement that annulled the 1939 border changes
- 08:16 The break in Soviet-Polish relations over the demand to investigate Katyn