Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine by Timothy Snyder

"Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia ... If people in the West become caught up in the question of whether they are largely Nazis or not, then they may miss the central issues in the present crisis."

This article will appear in the coming March 20, 2014 issue of The New York Review.