Busting the myths of Soviet propaganda and recalling Versailles (11.05.2025)
Two dialogues in a chat-roulette format. The first dissects the Soviet myth that Ukrainians supposedly lived better in the USSR than in interwar Poland, and that the USSR supposedly “delayed the war.” The second concerns the Versailles restrictions and the secret rearmament of Germany on Soviet territory under the Treaty of Rapallo.
Key moments
- 01:56 Mukhin's myth: 'the Soviet side gave Ukrainians more than Poland did'
- 03:37 A deputy speaker of the Polish Sejm was Ukrainian; Ukrainian schools existed in Poland
- 05:04 'Stalin did not delay the war — he hastened it' (a commonplace of serious historiography)
- 07:05 A comparison of interwar Poland and the USSR: parties, property, terror, the Holodomor
- 12:53 The Treaty of Rapallo: secret military cooperation between Weimar Germany and the USSR (the Mykolaiv shipyards, the pilots' school in Saratov)
- 14:42 There was no single-moment withdrawal from Versailles: it came gradually after 1933
- 18:49 'The fascist sword was forged in the USSR' — the literature on the question (Vetrov)
- 20:20 The military plants of Soviet Ukraine worked for the Weimar Republic