Author: Timothy Snyder

A question for American lawmakers about Ukraine Imagine that freedom was in decline around the world. Imagine that things had gotten so bad that a dictatorship actually invaded a democracy with the express goal of destroying its freedoms and its people. And yet … imagine that this people fought back. Imagine that their leaders stayed...

The following is the full text of the speech given by Timothy Snyder at the Kyiv Security Forum on December 1. Mr. Snyder, who is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, spoke during the forum via video conference. A recording of that video is posted on the Kyiv Security Forum web...