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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933 by Anne Applebaum

5.0

informative reflective sad medium-paced

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An informative listen, especially as someone who didn't know much about this time beyond 'Stalin starved a bunch of people across the USSR' (a widespread lack of knowledge that the book also covers the reasons for). Given how little this gets touched upon in schools, I almost feel like it should form part of the syllabus. It lays a very clear path of destruction, disorganisation and denial throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and makes it very obvious that the motives of today are still the motives of yesterday for Russia.