April 29, 2022, Kharkiv, Ukraine
April 29, 2022, Kharkiv, Ukraine - Understanding Putin's speeches, evaluating possible consequences of the war: We talked to academics from various disciplines. From a historical perspective, what are we to make of the Russian government's arguments and objectives in the war on Ukraine? "Russia's attack on Ukraine can in no way be explained by the objectives officially proclaimed by the Russian government. Putin is not really looking to push NATO back, nor is he concerned with self-determination for Ukraine's Russian population," says Martin Schulze Wessel , Chair of History of Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe at LMU, in an interview from 2 March 2022. "My theory is that Putin is trying to turn the clock back. He has often said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geostrategic disaster of our day. He wants to revive the way things used to be. Putin wants to reverse the dissolution of the Soviet Union and bring its former republics back into a constellation where the Kremlin is the center of power.
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