Alina Polyakova: Ukraine defies anti-semitic stereotypes
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman chairs government meeting on June 1.
Confronting a difficult history is no easy matter, particularly in Ukraine—a country caught between murderous regimes throughout the twentieth century. In his book Bloodlands, Yale historian Timothy Snyder places Ukraine at the center of a region where more than 14 million “non-combatants” were ruthlessly killed by the competing geopolitical goals of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin between 1933 and 1945.
