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A newly published study from Davis Center instructor George Soroka investigates how Russians and Ukrainians differed in their perceptions of Soviet-era history prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, providing an important baseline for interpreting shifts since then.
Putin will go down in history as the figure who did more to unite the Ukrainian people (albeit against Russia) than any other in recent memory, write George Soroka and Félix Krawatzek.