The Wende Museum is a collections-based research and education institute that preserves Cold War artifacts and history, making resources available to scholars and applying historical lessons of the past to the present.
Is a historian of the Soviet tyranny in all Ernest critical of the US second amendment? That'd be a fatal failure in transferring knowledge from A to B
Yes Putin is a fascist but so are our capitalist democracies where consent is engineered and security has become an excuse to militarize the police and control the people. I dont know who the real enemy is, is it Putin, or our western rulers, or both?
Thank you for such an important, moving speech Nadya. Your activism has always been a source of inspiration for millions. PLEASE, Wende Museum, publicize this video every way you can and urge others to do so as well. It should go viral as a symbol of hope, activism and commitment to truth and democracy for the United States, Russia, and the whole world. 🙏
Thank you for interviews! Was wondering how Yongyi's wife Helen Yao is doing? I was friends with her years ago when they lived in PA and she sold her own jewelry! Miss seeing her and wondered how she was doing?!❤😊
Wende museum should be renamed to Soviet Nostalgia Museum where failed communist regimes are glorified. Mrs.Chatterjee's lecture is a justification attempt of the bloody Russian invasion of independent Ukraine, wiping out the whole cities and killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. Why is she, living in the US, doing this? The answer is simple. She is appointed and well paid by Putin's propaganda. Ask her what she did in Russia even after Crimea and Donbass annexation and who paid for her stay there.
Russia is a mafia state who has brainwashed the population. No need to watch the video. Russia is not a new world order by any stretch. Putin is trying to revert to an old world , like in the Russian Empire. He wants to go back in time. The Russian economy was lower than most small countries in Europe and lower than Canada with 35 million people. Russia has 145 million. Russia can't do anything and relies totally on western technology and expertise. Russia has no young people , only seniors on pensions. After this war even more smart people left Russian and a huge brain drain and then 1/4 million young men have died in Ukraine from Putin. So the demographics are even worse.
NATO AND USA have to take responsibility for Breaking their agreement not to advance NATO towards Russia. They have many research but why no one explain the root cause. Putin never Intended the full scale war. He used only 190 k troops because he Couldn't wait for NATO to come to Thier boarder and Setup everything against them. He started the war to Get them to Negotiations and end NATO pack. But US and NATO engaging and aids to the Dictator NeoNazi Zelensky Escalated the war. This is military industrial complex Testing Wopens and selling weapons and thier proper ganda. Anyone a Fair minded person, who is Informed Truth not the Media Propaganda will side with Russia period
Russia is disgusting for their invasion of Ukraine. I always wanted to visit Moscow,not now,i am horrified at their behaviour...or rather Putins behaviour.
Just discovered this channel and I never expected to find both my biggest academic and musical influence in the same place. From Arch Getty to Bowie via the USSR is quite something, thank you!!
Heres a list of timestamps if you're interested. Intro 00:00 Homosexual suffering in Nazi Germany/How East + West viewed war crimes 3:18 Homosexuality viewed as Bourgeois decadence, how that influenced reforms in the early East 6:00 Treatment/life of homosexuals from the 50s-60s 9:40 1968 Decriminalisation of Homosexuality 10:52 Queer cultural life in the East 15:13 - Homosexual interest group Berlin 16:44 Charlotte Mahlsdorf (famous Eastern trans woman) 19:14 Churches as venues for queer activists 22:34 1980s legislature, state media about homosexuality 25:37 Q&A Laws against female homosexuality? 30:20 How did gay/lesbian life differ in the East compared to other eastern bloc countries? 31:52 Was it common knowledge that some nazi elites were homosexual? 34:00 Could you name the gay FDJ groups? 35:25 Would you consider reunification a set back for the LGBTQ+ community in the East? 36:16 Were cruising spaces in the East not surveyed by police? 39:20 Meetings between east and west homosexuals in the 80s, did these influence the gay groups in the east? 40:00 Books about Charlotte Mahlsdorf? 42:45 Is there a particular story of a prominent gay person in the Nazi Resistance? 43:20 Outro 44:45
Loved tuning into this video. Celaya's crossing of disciplines when it comes to physics and art, rather than addressing the relationship between the two as a dichotomy, is so captivating. Great questions from the student council. Awesome video.
Interesting talk, but it completely ignores the U.S. role in China's history during the period. We were waging real (military support for the KMT and Taiwan, Korean conflict, CIA involvement in Tibet, etc.) and economic war against Mao's government from long before the founding of the PRC until we finally recognized them as the legitimate government of China in 1979 (three years after Mao and Chou died). China's post-1949 history was hugely affected by US policies that attempted to isolate China economically, and fear that the U.S., Taiwan and our allies were going to overthrow what we considered the illegitimate Chinese government. I would be very interested to hear Professor Dikötter's opinion on whether or not U.S. policies contributed to the problems of the Mao era. Thanks.
What a wonderful talk. Dr. Dikötter is a gift and the Wende Museum has done well to host him! I’ve never heard of the museum before, but this was a great introduction to its work.
For a historian, he's not very smart. Columbus never set foot in North America, he only "discovered" the Caribbean, while that is on the continental plate it's not the mainland...!
