Key Takeaway
| ● | Ukrainian culture has kept Ukraine from being swallowed up by any of the nations that have controlled her. |
| ● | Language, religion, and education are critical systems that have maintained Ukrainian self-identity. |
| ● | Large overseas Ukrainian communities have also fostered Ukrainian nationalism and the fight for self-determination. |
| ● | Ukraine fought against the Tsars alongside the communists. |
| ● | From 1918-1922, Ukraine was an independent nation. |
| ● | In 1922, Ukraine was compelled into solidarity and functional vassalship with Russia in the USSR. |
Cultural cohesion enables subjected nations like Ukraine to remain as cohesive units despite being subjugated by more powerful nations.
Meanwhile a growing consensus was emerging that nations ought to be answerable to the opinion of a global community of nations.Ukraine had a few brief years of independence, but was still too weak to maintain its grip on self-determination. Next up, we shall consider what life under the Russian-led USSR was like for Ukrainians, and how they developed their capacity to take their chance at independence, when it eventually arrived.
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