Bloodlands: A Definition

Yale historian Timothy Snyder famously coined the term Bloodlands to refer the lands between Hitler and Stalin where both’s heinous yet competing visions of the world - fascism and communism - competed with horrifying results.

These areas include Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

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This part of the world, Eastern Europe, is messy - sometimes it is impossible to tell where one border, language or people ends and another begins. Bloodlands, as a newsletter, has one simple job: bring clarity to the noise of Eastern Europe and former USSR.

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I spent 2012 - 2014 in Ukraine as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Western Ukraine and still have many friends and colleagues there. They deserve their story told.

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