Historian Serhii Plokhy on Russian imperialism, de-colonization, and why Putin is so obsessed with Ukraine

In this interview with the Kyiv Independent, renowned Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy discusses why there’s no question that Russia has always been an empire, how the movement for an independent Ukrainian state in the early 20th century began as a leftist project, why Russia is more fixated on destroying Ukraine than any other country, and more.

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