Professor Georgiy Kasianov is an active scholar, having authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21st centuries. Some of his recent work examines the current Russian - Ukraine situation by looking at how historical memory has been distorted for political reasons. Professor Kaisianov Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. In this episode, Professor Kasianov discusses the roots of these different historical views and how he feels the war between Ukraine and Russia will play out.