how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe
- Written by Matt Fitzpatrick, Professor in International History, Flinders University
Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war by “denazifying” Ukraine, while his forces desecrate the Holocaust site of Babyn Yar.
Putin’s opponents have their own analogies. Putin is variously Hitler, Stalin or Tsar Peter the Great.
On social media, memes mine the...