„Unvollkommene Demokratie gegen vollendete Diktatur“ – Der KIT-Zeithistoriker Rolf-Ulrich Kunze zum Jahrestag des Kriegsbeginns in der Ukraine - Campus-Report am 21.02.2023

A year ago, on February 24, 2022, the Russian attack on Ukraine began. For Europe, 12 months of war meant a turning point. It was the confrontation with a reality that was thought to have been overcome. The many thousands of people who died at the front, the total destruction of cities, the crimes committed against the civilian population, the horror of war appeared as the return of an almost forgotten nightmare from the 20th century. It took a correspondingly long time before the true dimensions of this turning point in the public consciousness became apparent. For Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, historian for contemporary history at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, for the West the task consists not only in supporting Ukraine in its self-defense against an aggressor.