Bloodlands (Non-fiction) History, Europe, 20th century hell. Warning: you are likely to find this book extremely disturbing...which really means you’re human after all. Ok... I’m in awe from reading “Bloodlands,” by https://www.timothysnyder.org/ . To call this book riveting is ....

...an understatement. Reading Bloodlands is absolutely terrifying... [ok I’m not _reading_ ... I’m listening to the audiobook, so feel free to get bent as needed]... “Bloodlands” it’s a hauntingly detailed depiction of life, or more accurately, the absolute _hell_ created ...

..by Stalin’s Soviet Russia and Hitler’s Germany. This hell became home for millions of WW2 era European non-combatants. The plans put into motion and carried out by these ruthless killers (Hitler and Stalin, in case you were wondering ) culminated in two (2) of the most ...

...appalling and vicious death engines of the 20th century: (1) the Holocaust, where Germany attempted systematic genocide of the Jews, and, what is far lesser known, (2) Soviet Russia's deliberate attempt to eradicate the Slavic peasantry. Alone, each of these man-made ...

... atrocities would have resulted in the infinite suffering and death of millions of men, women, and children. These two geopolically and physically dominant, yet steeply polarized nations, established policy.... not in a metaphorical sense but actual codified policies ...

... which ultimately gave rise to what Snyder has coined as the “Bloodlands." In my view, the "Bloodlands" are akin to a geopolical no-mans-land where no one is safe and your family is faced with choosing between death.. or a slower death. Snyder’s attention to detail ...

...leaves little to the imagination as the reader is pulled across detailed, brutal accounts of rampant murder, rape, and starvation....all at a colossal scale. As I wander back through the Bloodlands, a completely new view emerges into the atrocities in Europe before, during..

... and even after WW2.

Spoiler alert:
Snyder gets into a little “trouble” by breaking with contemporary historical canon with his not so subtle creation of a parallel universe where the "bad guys" of WW2 are not just the Nazis....but also the up-and-coming champions ...

.. of the extreme far-left communist party: the Russians! I’m giving it 5 out of 5 stars and a definite must read from this history fan. #history #HistoryNerd #historylover #historybuff #historychannel #HistoryLesson #historygeek #historymade #historylovers #history4u #historytour