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Hitler and Stalin Today (full lecture and readings)
Source:
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-todayAll Lectures and Readings:
https://slrpnk.net/post/41032826---
## Institution:
University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
## Lecturer
Timothy Snyder
## University Course Code
MUN180H1-S
## Syllabus
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today
## Subject:
#authoritarianism #colonization #colonialism #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #ukraine
## Year:
2024
## Description:
In **Hitler and Stalin Today (MUN180H1-S)**, Timothy Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now. Their ideologies are described as worldviews and as practical politics, with an emphasis on the reasons for their appeal. Attention to their policies of mass killing, essential events of twentieth-century history, instructs us about how "it" can happen here. The study of dissident thought helps us to see connections between historical predicaments and our own, and instructs us about possible reactions as individuals and as citizens. The course asks what we have learned from the twentieth century and what lessons we should carry forward. -
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Russian forces kill bread van driver in Kherson as attacks injure 30 across Ukraine over past day . . . . . Few thought Russia could build a surveillance state. Here’s how it did it . . . . . Ukraine's General Staff announces audit of unit staffing, manpower allocation, as Drapatyi takes charge . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-30-2026/
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https://theconversation.com/updating-darwin-biologists-are-returning-to-an-older-theory-to-explain-anomalies-in-evolution-276549. As I recall, there was a chap called Trofim Lysenko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko) who was both anti-Mendelian & pro-Lamarckist. His #influence on #Soviet #biology was absolutely disastrous, & he was single-handedly the cause of much of the #crop #failure, & ensuing #malnutrition, that happened in the #SovietUnion under #Stalin.
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New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" [Timothy Snyder]
Source:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/new-lecture-series-for-the-public- **Institution:** University of Toronto
- **Lecturer:** [Timothy Snyder](https://substack.com/@snyder)
- **University Course Code:** [MUN180H1](https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/mun180h1)
- **Subject:** #authoritarianism #colonization #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
- **Year:** 2026
- **Description:**
> The first lecture in a ten-lecture series on Hitler and Stalin today.
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> The first lecture (video above) is titled “What is history?” We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don’t care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.
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> There are two readings to go along with this lecture:
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> - [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/nde/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTORONTO_INST%3AUTORONTO_NDE&search_scope=UTL_AND_CI&docid=alma991107113412006196)
> - [The War on History is a War on Democracy](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)---
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #freecourse #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #universityoftoronto #uoft #freecourse #opencourselectures
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If it is inaccessible, here are other ways to read:
- [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://annas-archive.gl/md5/34bf7861a9ee62b6a6bb2b82a6699ef7)
- [The War on History is a War on Democracy](http://web.archive.org/web/20260205233604if_/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)
- [Listen](https://static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2021/06/29/magazine/29audm-forced-forgetting-snyder/210629-forced-forgetting-snyder-nytmag-audm.mp3) -
"[S]ix million people were sent to the #Soviet #Gulag. A quarter did not survive. Another 16-17 million were transported to strict regime #laborcamps, where the death rate was around 10%.
Within these numbers are the names of tens of thousands of #Jews of every kind, from the devout #hassid to the #assimilated #Communist.
#Stalin’s rule was fortified by spies who believed that they were repairing the world and saving it from the ravages of #fascism. The most effective of these were five young idealists who were at #CambridgeUniversity in the 1930s and who bore witness to the rise of #Hitler and the march of #Nazism across Europe.
#TheCambridgeFive: #GuyBurgess, #DonaldMcLean, #KimPhilby, #AnthonyBlunt, and #JohnCairncross sold their collective soul to Stalin. While their story has been retold countless times in many #books, the remarkable Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by #AntoniaSenior sheds new light[...]"
https://www.jpost.com/history/article-901146?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
I would like to remind you that USA is currently inflicting a holodomor of it's own on Cuba.
Trump is not yet as bloody as Stalin, but he's pulling in the same direction, shadowing him every day.
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Give it a decade or two, and tankies will start glazing Pol Pot again just like they do Stalin
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End state of tankie 'thought'
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Democracy is when single-party state with single-candidate elections
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Great weight loss program, available to disadvantaged minorities like Ukrainians free of charge! Glory to the Soviet Union!
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Average Holodomor denier:
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2056576/average-holodomor-denier
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Coursera has launched a free international course entitled ‘Famine as Genocide: The Holodomor in Ukraine’.
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L’ambizioso progetto sovietico del biplano in grado di cambiare in volo il numero delle sue ali
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44356#volo #tecnologia #progettazione #invenzioni #biplani #sesquiplani #secondaguerramondiale #conflitti #storia #sovietici #russia #novecento #invenzioni #ali #portanza #biplani #monoplani #mosca #personaggi #stalin #prototipi #idee #aerodinamica #caccia
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youtu.be/PtRz6qRUq2E
Compared to the #Czars #Lenin was a competent and a nice guy, sadly for all Russians, he was an arrogant bastard, and #Trotsky even more so. Lenin looked down on the peasants, Trotsky looked down on the peasants AND the #proletariat . #Lenin gave all party members perks that began to corrupt the ideology, and #Stalin used those perks to gain loyalty from people with loose belief in #communism . Trotsky would have been the right man for the job, but wasn't the best at gaining and holding power. Communism would have been somewhat repressive but no where near the terror and brutality and death that it was under Stalin, with deaths that dwarfed most czars, and 3% of the population was incarcerated.. After that all new socialist nations were forced due to trade embargoes by the west to become Stalinist instead of a more democratic system. This only ended once Stalin Died and places like Chile, Vietnam, Cuba and Laos aimed to be democratic, but with all the American backed coups and embargoes, this was not to be sadly.
Why Trotsky Lost to Stalin (Even Though He Was Smarter) -
Genocide is okay if it's done by red-painted fascists!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2010064/genocide-is-okay-if-it-s-done-by-red-painted-fascists
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Ukraine has the worst luck
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2003259/ukraine-has-the-worst-luck
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Ukraine has the worst luck
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2003258/ukraine-has-the-worst-luck
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"Of course Stalin didn't perform genocide! But also, the Poles, Finns, Koreans, Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians, Baltic nations, and Central Asian peoples had it coming!"
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This atrocity brought to you in the name of The Vanguard Party(tm)
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This atrocity brought to you in the name of The Vanguard Party(tm)
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Graduated from the People's University of Butchering Soviet Citizens
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Truly the Great Genius Stalin is unparalleled in his thinking
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Dark humor is like food - not everyone gets it
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1813759/dark-humor-is-like-food-not-everyone-gets-it
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The classic Tankie Scale
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1733281/the-classic-tankie-scale
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Oh, I'm not brave enough for politics!
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1728110/oh-i-m-not-brave-enough-for-politics
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Stages of Tankie Holodomor Denial
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1699248/stages-of-tankie-holodomor-denial
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Voline
@Voline(Interview) Ignacio de Llorens biography of the Russian anarchist Volin, a key figure in the creation of the first soviet and later persecuted by the Bolsheviks
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/08/stalinism-is-a-marxist-invention-to-save-lenin-and-trotsky/The Unknown Revolution 1917-1921
https://libcom.org/article/unknown-revolution-1917-1921-volin -
#American #President #Trump? Or #Stalin? The apparatus of the state is being used to round up the leader's #EnemiesList. The question is now: WHO IS NEXT?
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#FBI conducts search at home and office of former National Security Adviser #JohnBolton https://www.msnbc.com/chris-jansing-reports/watch/fbi-conducts-search-at-home-and-office-of-former-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-245578821722#uspol #coup #policestate #kangaroocourt #showtrials #fascism
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Brillianter Text über #Pazifismus von Andreas #Fanizadeh
Zitat:
"(...) #Putin|s #Soldaten sind Mörder, sofern sie sich dem #russisch|en #Angriffskrieg und seinen Verbrechen hätten entziehen können. #Ukrainische Soldaten sind es nicht, sofern sie sich bei der #Verteidigung an das #Kriegsvölkerrecht halten."
https://taz.de/Sahra-Wagenknecht-und-der-Pazifismus/!6036622/
#Tucholsky #Weltbühne #Suttner #Tibon #Pazifist #Solidarität #Linke #Grüne #Ukraine #Russland #NS #Faschismus #Hitler #Stalin #BSW #Wagenknecht #noBSW #AfD #noAFD
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“What matters more, he realizes that the Russians see this too. It would be useless to try to take a firm line with Stalin. He will be able to do as he pleases. Will he become a menace to the free world, another Hitler? The P.M. is appalled by his own impotence.”
Excerpt From
Hitler and Stalin
Laurence Rees#hitlerandstalin #rees #tryants #tehran #1943 #WWII #fdr #churchill #stalin #tehranconference
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“Moran believed he knew why Churchill felt this way. ‘Until he came here, the P.M. could not bring himself to believe that, face to face with Stalin, the democracies would take different courses. Now he sees he cannot rely on the President’s [Roosevelt] support.
#hitlerandstalin #rees #tryants #tehran #1943 #WWII #fdr #churchill #stalin #tehranconference
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Different take on the chummy relationship between Churchill & Roosevelt..
“[..], Churchill was sufficiently depressed during the [Tehran November 1943] conference to have a late-night vision of devastation. ‘I believe man might destroy man and wipe out civilization,’ he told Lord Moran, his doctor. ‘Europe would be desolate and I may be held responsible.’#hitlerandstalin #rees #tryants #tehran #1943 #WWII #fdr #churchill #stalin #tehranconference
