Ukrainians fighting Russia are fending off a third world war a prominent historian has said, likening the third year of full-scale war in Ukraine to the period just ahead of World War II.
Comparing 2024 to 1938, Timothy Snyder, a Yale University history professor specializing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union said Ukraine was comparable to a Czechoslovakia “that has chosen to fight.”
In 1939, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler entered Czechoslovakia and secured Czech assets for Germany’s armed forces. Great Britain and France offered Poland security guarantees but despite this Hitler’s forces invaded Poland in September 1939. London and Paris then declared war on Germany, starting World War II.
“If the Ukrainians give up, or if we give…
