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EDITORIAL. Difficult to talk about taxation or purchasing power between Mariupol and Boutcha… Yet the “blood lands” can shed light on our presidential election.
By Etienne Gernelle
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ATnear Mariupol, Boutcha… So here is the return of mass terror in the “lands of blood”, an expression due to the historian Timothy Snyder and which constitutes the title of one of his books, published in 2012 (1). Snyder described how, between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered some 14 million people in this land cursed by history which “extends from central Poland to western Russia via Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries”. The historian points out that if “nearly half of the soldiers who fell on the whole [des]battlefield [de la Seconde Guerre mondiale] around the world died here, in this same region, that of the bloodlands, not one of these 14 million victims was a soil…
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