> I highly recommend Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, if you have the stomach for it. Ditto: > In this book, Snyder examines the political, cultural, and ideologi

> I highly recommend Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, if you have the stomach for it. Ditto: > In this book, Snyder examines the political, cultural, and ideological context tied to a specific region of Central and Eastern Europe, where Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany committed mass murders of an estimated 14 million noncombatants between 1933 and 1945, the majority outside the death camps of the Holocaust. Snyder's thesis delineates the "bloodlands" as a region that now comprises Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), northeastern Romania, and the westernmost fringes of Russia; in this region, Stalin and Hitler's regimes, despite their conflicting goals, interacted to increase suffering and bloodshed beyond what each regime would have inflicted independently.[1] […] > The book was awarded numerous prizes, including the 2013 Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought, and stirred up a great deal of debate among historians. Reviews ranged from highly critical to "rapturous".[4][5] * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlands