BBC-Podcasts zur Geschichte der Ukraine

The History Hour: Ukrainian history special

The Babi Yar mas­sacre, Ukraine’s great famine, the Budapest Mem­o­ran­dum, the Cher­nobyl nuclear dis­as­ter and Sovi­et hol­i­days in the Crimea: To mark the Russ­ian inva­sion of Ukraine, a spe­cial edi­tion on episodes from Ukrain­ian his­to­ry.

In April 1986 a reac­tor explod­ed at the Cher­nobyl nuclear pow­er plant in Sovi­et Ukraine. Sergii Mirnyi mon­i­tored radi­a­tion lev­els in the exclu­sion zone around the plant. How the inter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty — includ­ing both Rus­sia and the USA — offered secu­ri­ty „assur­ances“ to Ukraine in return for giv­ing up its share of the Sovi­et nuclear arse­nal. A survivor’s account of Ukraine’s great famine in the 1930s, the Holodomor, when sev­er­al mil­lion peo­ple died. The mass killing of Ukrain­ian Jews by Nazi Ger­many dur­ing World War Two, and how Artek, on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea, became the Sovi­et Union’s most pop­u­lar hol­i­day camp.

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The Documentary Podcast: „Understanding the long history between Russia and Ukraine“

Claire Gra­ham talks to for­mer BBC for­eign cor­re­spon­dent Kevin Con­nol­ly about what has his­tor­i­cal­ly bound Rus­sia and Ukraine togeth­er, and what has pulled them apart.

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The Documentary Podcast: „Destroying Ukrainian history“

How major news sto­ries are affect­ing the lives of peo­ple around the world.

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