16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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What We're Doing Is Not an Occupation
The Polish state is destroyed, which is not a trivial thing. But it's not actually normal to invade countries and then say they don't exist unless you're a colonizing power. The Soviets were also careful to say that there wasn't a Polish state anymore. This wasn't an occupation. This is just territory where there was a class war going on. So, from the point of view of Ukrainian history, what follows is that the Ukrainian Soviet Republic expands very significantly to the West.
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