“The Slavic peoples, on the contrary, are not destined for their own life. They know this, and we do not have to convince them that they can do it too. We created the Baltic countries and Ukraine in 1918”
“The Slavic peoples, on the contrary, are not destined for their own life. They know this, and we do not have to convince them that they can do it too. We created the Baltic countries and Ukraine in 1918”
The ProleWiki article on Ukraine says something similar. The area now known as Ukraine was previously Lithuanian and Polish, some parts briefly Russian and Austrian.
Given that history it’s no surprise that Ukrainian nationalism turned out how it did.
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Ukraine
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Ukrainian_National_Republic_(1917–1920)