[UPDATE — STATEMENT ORIGINALLY ISSUED ON 25 FEB. 2022]

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Renewing our call of 25 Feb. 2022:

The Defending History community joins in calling for immediate restoration of peace and security for all the people of Ukraine, condemning unequivocally the savage and medievally barbaric invasion — and rain of death and destruction with mass murder and terrorization of a peaceful civilian population — by the neighboring big power, led by our century’s most dangerous and deranged warmonger dictator. Ukraine’s victory will be the victory of the free and democratic world everywhere, as will the fall of the Putinist regime of dictatorship, invasion, and mass murder of civilians.

As a small gesture of spiritual solidarity, our Yiddish Studies team has constructed a modest new collection of videos of Ukraine’s last Yiddish speaking survivors. Ukraine alone spans every modern dialect of the language.

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See DH’s UKRAINE SECTION

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Note: In response to onslaughts of attempts at defamation and personal destruction (including from  far-right and neo-nazi groups), it can be useful to provide a screenshot (just below) of a front page text we introduced early in 2014, at first intermittently, and now for many years consistently. Years before that, our earlier (2011) reply was sent to a much more academically nuanced version of the Red Libel in a major Lithuanian journal of political science  (it was, at the insistence of the late Prof. L. Donskis, finally posted on their website, but never carried, or we believe, mentioned, in the print edition; please check). The text is available in DH.

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