Timothy Snyder is most known by promoting the view that Eastern European fascists just fought for their independence by serving Third Reich and mass murdering Jews, communists and partisans.
Ehm, you would find he is most qualified historian on authoritarianism and how slavic brainpan exposed to the siberian steppe gets slightly flatter and becomes russian brainpan, and loses empathy centers and gains obedience genes *and infinite bloodlust for innocent ukrainians