 on WWII is that Stalin was planning a surprise attack on the Third Reich in August of 1941 but Hitler beat him to it with Barbarossa in June of that year. Sounds far fetched but he's filled many books outlining this theory and has sold many, many books.
I subscribe to the view, outlined by many and amongst others, Henry Kissinger, that Hitler wanted everything as soon as possible whereas Stalin was willing to wait for European powers to fight each other and then later come in in one final sweep. Or the Timothy Snyder view that Hitler and Stalin would not be able to kill as many people as they did if they did not collude with each other as much. Winston Churchill remarked once after Nazi Germany's defeat that 'we killed the wrong pig'.
But either way, the Stalinist Soviet Union had an expansionist agenda and Putin's Russia does too.
Is Yatseniuk perhaps trying to peddle some sort revisionist history or a particular national narrative. I doubt it. Various Ukrainian politicians use all kinds of historical references but listening to Yatseniuk is like listening to an accountant. The guy was Ukraine's central bank director while in his 20s and even in this interview, he talks more about the price of gas than 'invasion' or 'advancement'.
If one wants to get really technical, Yatseniuk is from the Bukovina province which historically was part of the Hapsburg Empire, then after 1918 part of Romania, and then in 1940 part of the USSR. So perhaps he considers his native province Ukraine, and that the Soviets were the first to invade as the axis only occupied it? But I doubt it, he's not the type.
Noam Chomsky rewrites that 'there is a touch of truth even in the most vulgar propaganda' and today's Kremlin directed media not only excels at this -- extrapolating something minute into something gargantuan -- but even goes above and beyond by totally making things up out of nothing. Whatever the case is here, it should be a non-issue and we should just move on.
Posted by: Mark Jaremko | 11 January 2015 at 08:30 AM
Others (Rodion, Henry Noel, german_translator) have already commented on the use of the word "Anmarsch". I agree with them that it does not specifically mean invasion. In my view "advance" is a better translation.
The way I understood the German translation of the Ukrainian PM's comments is as follows:
First, he made the point that there had been a Soviet *advance*, i.e. the advance of Soviet power and/or influence and not specifically the invasion of a Soviet military force, in the Ukraine (time frame unstated but presumably before the war) and in Germany (time frame again unstated but presumably after the war in the establishment and perpetuation of the German Democratic Republic). Then he made a second -- *and separate* -- point about no-one having the right to re-write the results of second world war which he accused President Putin of trying to do.
In brief, I understood him to be making two separate points: one about the advance (both pre-and post-war) of Soviet power and influence in the Ukraine and (East) Germany and a second and separate point about Putin trying to re-write the results of the second world war.
I suspect the Russians have deliberately misconstrued his remarks as no doubt it suits them to paint their opponents as playing fast and loose with history (just as it suits the Ukrainians to paint their opponents as all kinds of things -- there is here, as in most conflicts, also a propaganda war going on between both sides).
That said I would be interested to see an English translation of the Ukrainian and compare it with the German.
Posted by: David Tomkins | 11 January 2015 at 07:58 AM
My take on this from the German is that the so jets marched through the Ukraine on their way to Germany. Obviously when the Germans were in retreat.
But it seems to me to be delivered as a filler in the narrative rather than a definitive point being made.
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