Apéro: Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Krieg mit Russland

Ev. Christuskirche am Mühlburger Tor, Andachtsraum

1. Mai 2022

Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze

Nach dem Hauptgottesdienst, Beginn 10.00, ca. 11.15-11.30

Apéro: Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, War with Russia

Date: Sunday, May 1, 2022, after the service

Place: Ev. Christuskirche, prayer room

For the first time since September 1, 1939, a major European power is waging a war of aggression and annihilation against a neighboring country. In which foreign and military policy continuities does Putin's invasion of Ukraine stand? What are the geopolitical strategic objectives of the trained KGB agent and commander-in-chief of the largest European military power? What role do foreign policy experiences with Germany since the time of Stalin and the founding of the two German states play? The lecture presents a series of problem constellations and discusses the thesis that in the long run only a politically and militarily united supranational EU state in NATO can counter the permanent Russian threat.

Literature: Manfred Hildermeier, Geschichte der Sowjetunion, 1917-1991, Munich 1998; Paul Kennedy, Aufstieg und Fall der großen Mächte. Ökonomischer Wandel und militärischer Konflikt von 1500 bis 2000, Frankfurt am Main 1989; Karl Schlögel, Terror und Traum. Moscow 1937, Bonn 2008; Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Bern/Munich 1973.

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