Ukrainian Professor: Will Ukraine’s Far-Right Accept or Derail a Negotiated Peace with Russia?

Professor Marta Havryshko, a Ukrainian History Professor specializing in Holocaust Studies and gender and sexual violence toward women during and after WWII in Ukraine, now teaches at Clark University in Massachusetts. She will speak about the origins of the Ukraine War prior to the Russian invasion of 2022, including the influence of ultra-nationalist factions; the current military and political situation in Ukraine; and the prospects for a negotiated settlement of the war.

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Of special interest may be her views on:

1. The long history of Ukrainian ultra-nationalists: their founding by Stepan Bandera and support for the Nazis during WWII, including the murder of an estimated 100,000 Jews, Poles, and others; fighting the Soviets after the war and receiving major support from the U.S. CIA to undermine Soviet control of Ukraine; and their being welcomed as exiles in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere.  In 2024 in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, neo-Nazi Ukrainians openly hosted an international conference of far-right proponents of racism and anti-semitism.

2. The longstanding division in Ukraine between those who want to align with the West and those who want to remain close with Russia for linguistic, cultural, religious, economic, and political reasons. This division came to a head during the Maidan protests of 2014, the unconstitutional ouster of the elected government, and the war in Eastern Ukraine for the last 11 years that led in part to the Russian invasion of 2022.

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