Status Updates From 民族的重建：波兰、乌克兰、立陶宛、白俄罗斯，1569-...

History of so ugly and repetitive. I feel like the people in East Germany have spent all of history being herded over one border or another trying not to be "ethnically cleansed". What is it with men and their need for ALWAYS "more land" to colonize and "cleanse". And why am I using the word "cleanse" instead of kill?

This book started out being really hard for me to comprehend - like really over my head. But now that I'm halfway through, it's actually helping me to understand how nations are built and how we came to our current world of nationalism.