Welcome to 7 Minute Explainer — where we uncover the untold stories behind history’s most shocking events.
In this episode, we explore the Bloodlands — the region between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union where 14 million civilians were deliberately murdered between 1933 and 1945. Based on historian Timothy Snyder’s groundbreaking research, this video exposes how Hitler and Stalin turned Eastern Europe into the deadliest place on Earth — through starvation, shootings, and gas.
💀 What you’ll learn:
• Why most victims of the era were not soldiers, but civilians
• How Stalin’s engineered famine killed millions in Ukraine
• How Hitler’s war of extermination unfolded across the East
• Why this region remains central to understanding both the Holocaust and Soviet terror
This is the story of the killing fields of modern Europe — a chilling reminder of how ideology and power can erase millions of lives.
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📘 Source: Timothy Snyder – Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010)
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