Ukraine - History in the Making
When I started the conversation series ”Ukraine - History in the Making” I could have never imagined where this journey would lead me. It all started in March 2023 after I got home from an exchange stay in Chile and felt, that I had to do more for Ukraine, than what I did on my social media accounts and on the streets in the spring and summer of 2022. I think most of us remember that initial period after Ruzzia’s the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Speaking from a European/Danish point of view it was a time of big fear, desperation and uncertainty, but also a time of high hopes, energy and big solidarity. In the very first conversation of the show with Veronika Netrebenko, she says the following about the feelings of Ukrainians during the Maidan Revolution: ”We understood we gotta fight for it, and it was something totally different, we felt different, we felt that we need to fight for it”. To a certain degree I believe you can say the same about what happened within the hearts and minds of Europeans after Ruzzia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We also felt different, and I also thinkt that we immediately understood that the time of ”peace” was over, but our problem is, that we still dont want to accept it. I realised when I got home from Chile before the spring of 2023, just how far we were from accepting the fact, that we have to stand up, both for Ukraine and for ourselves, much more than what we like to make ourselves believe we are doing and have done. The energy from 2022 was already gone the following year, solidarity declarations towards Ukraine went from many to few and the war became much less prevalent in news headlines. Because of this development concerning our collective sentiment towards Ukraine, I decided that the best way to help Ukraine would be to start a conversation series in which I spoke with Ukrainians, experts or politicians in English and Danish. I wanted Ukranians to have a platform from which they could tell their story, I wanted experts to come on and explain my listeners and I why Ukraine is existentially important. And I wanted politicians to come on, because they have the power to do things and the freedom to speak much more clearly about the subject than what many experts can do. All this took me on a journey I could have never imagined. I could highlight almost all conversations and experiences, but let me share two things: I’ll NEVER(!!!) forget the Ukrainians I spoke with, whose families had to stay in now temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine, where they are, in some cases subject to brutal oppression and torture, and I will also NEVER forget my own trip to Ukraine in February 2024, that came about after I spoke with Jens Alstrup, Chairman of the Danish Organisation, Freedom for Ukraine. The last thing I started with the podcast was a specific ”Ukraine History Series” within the broader show in which me and the team i gathered present the history of Ukraine over 10-15 episodes. We well get back to that as soon as I, the host Emil, have figured out my general professional situation after finishing my education in February 2025.
Listen on:
Episodes
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tuesday May 09, 2023
Tirsdag den 4. april talte jeg med Simon Dalsgaard. Simon læser Østerupastudier, har boet i Østerupa, har rejst i Østeuropa over flere omgange, arbejder i sit politiske virke med Østeruopa, og ved generelt bare ufatteligt meget om Rusland og de lande, der tidligere led under sovjetisk dominans. Vi taler om østeuropæisk kultur, politik og historie, og om hvordan alt det kommer til udtryk i de konflikter, der udspiller sig i regionen.
Lyt med og bliv klogere!
Link til Løkke klip: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/video/dXJuOnR2MjpjbXM6YnJpZ2h0Y292ZTp2aWRlbzo2MzIyNjA2NTI4MTEy
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
As time stand still before the offensive everyone talks about, I found it right to do my own prediction. My prediction differs from what you would normally hear in many ways. How? My focus is mainly on Western responsibility. Why? Because Western will to support Ukraine is the most changeable factor influencing the outcome of the war as of now.
Slava Ukraini!
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
On the 14th of April I spoke with Dr. Marina Miron, who is a German military analytic from Kings College in London right now working with the defense study department. Her focus is on military strategy more broadly on a grand strategic level. We speak about aspects of the war such as modern informational warfare, history, Ukrainian defense will, development of Russians politics, western responsibility when confronting Russian threats to democracies and much more!
Listen along and get smarter!
Links:
Marina Miron on DW News: https://www.dw.com/en/battle-for-bakhmut-dw-talks-to-defense-analyst-marina-miron/video-64959997
Churchill speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKGXo4g26Ds&ab_channel=HistoricalSpeechesTV
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
On the 8th of April I spoke with Daria Boiko, who fled from her home city in Kherson Oblast to Denmark in the beginning of the large-scale invasion. During this period her parents and other family members stayed in her hometown, where they now live under temporary Russian occupation. In the conversation Daria tells that story and we talk about why being politcally active for the Ukrainian cause is so important. One other main subject is the failure of the west to help Ukraine sufficiently. Besides that we talk about a lot of stuff, all with the aim of inspiring political action FOR Ukraine.
Listen along and get smarter!
Links:
Ukraine House in Denmark: https://www.instagram.com/ukraine_house_in_denmark/?hl=da
War quote: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/clausewitz-war-as-politics-by-other-means
International donorside: https://u24.gov.ua/
Den danske Ukraine komité: https://twitter.com/DKUkraineKomite '
Ukrainian-Danish Youth House Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1839325589575426
Winter on Fire https://www.netflix.com/title/80031666
Gudrun Persson story (?)
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Onsdag den 5. april talte jeg med Anders Puck Nielsen, der, i blandt mange titler, først og fremmest er Militæranalytiker hos Forsvarsakademiet. Du kender ham måske fra DR eller TV2, hvor han flere gange har optrådt. Derfor er det også en meget efterspurgt person, jeg har talt med, hvorfor der skal lyde en kæmpe tak til Anders for at være med! Vi taler selvfølgelig om krigen i Ukraine, og om hvordan og hvornår den måske slutter. Vi taler også om Anders rolle som ekspert, om "konsekvenserne" ved russisk nederlag, og om hvad der kommer til at ske i Rusland.
Lyt med og bliv klogere!
Link til Sanna Marin klip: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sanna+Marin+russia+need+to+leave+Ukraine&oq=Sanna+Marin+russia+need+to+leave+Ukraine&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160.6284j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:21d4b652,vid:4q7O9lG23Lc
Link til Anders Youtube profil: https://www.youtube.com/c/anderspucknielsen
Link til video om Krim-krigen jeg omtaler for yderlig historisk bevidstliggørelse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGVRWQ6oxFw&ab_channel=Timeline-WorldHistoryDocumentaries
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Torsdag den 30. marts talte jeg med Frederik Vad Nielsen, der er folketingsmedlem fra Socialdemokratiet. Vi taler om, hvordan den frie verden og særligt de europæiske demokratier har svigtet Ukraine, og om hvordan og hvorfor vi over de sidste mange år har svækket vores evne og mod, når det kommer til at forsvare vores værdier. Vi taler også om, hvad vi skal gøre for at bryde den tendens til fordel for en kurs, der klart og tydeligt viser Putin, at vi er færdige med at opføre os apatisk og defaitistisk overfor mødet med autokratiske trusler.
Lyt med og bliv klogere!
Link til billede fra Donetsk 5. marts 2014: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbAx_-LGuX/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D&fbclid=IwAR3T8ZzPYM5yhfsjPfkQkCb_pUV1d7FDUhLbPaP3DIa3c6IQseaUeXIe30M
Link til klip med Boris Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdiOVR-aFTg
Link til "der er ikke nogen regning"-klippet: https://twitter.com/DebattenDR2/status/1360982129824305153
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
I had this conversation with Veronika from Kyiv in the end of April 2022, when i was was writing my bachelor last spring.
We talk about why the Ukrainian resolve and resistance is so strong, how the Maidan revolution of 2013/14 eventually led to Putin initiating a large scale invasion of Ukraine.
Given the fast developments of the war our conversation is a bid "outdated", but the topics and our considerations definetly remains relevant today.
It is the first in a series of conversations im planning to publish, and this one was recorded with no equipment whatsoever. The rest of the conversations I'm going to publish will be recent and recorded with equipment, so this is also a kind of test.
Give it a listen and enjoy to increase your knowledge about Eastern European countries, that belongs to the broader democratic European family.