A review by blairewithane
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

4.0

4.5 stars. It is hard to rate a book this depressing and that truly lays bare the horrors of both Hitler and Stalin. The awful history that all Ukrainians and particularly Ukrainian Jews is endured is almost impossibly bad to wrap my mind around. I’ve read lots about the Holocaust but learning about Stalin’s intentional starvation of Ukrainians just a few years earlier really starkly shows what Eastern Europeans went through. He also illustrates the reasons these policies came to pass and the differences between the death camps and concentration camps and gives a clear picture of what happened throughout those years.