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“This is a disaster,” said US historian Timothy Snyder of the situation in Ukraine. Speaking at DW’s Global Media Forum, the contemporary historian and expert on Eastern Europe referred to Russia’s grain blockade in the Black Sea as a policy resembling the Soviet period of Stalinism in the early 1930s.
He drew parallels to Stalin’s terror of starvation in Ukraine, which claimed millions of lives. But at that time, Snyder said, there were no journalists drawing international attention to the…
