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The Habsburgs Remembered Fondly in Western Ukraine
The Habsburgs are going to turn out to be very important in the origins of Ukraine. When Maria Teresia takes part in the first partition of Poland in 1772 and brings in a tiny bit of territory where most people speak Ukrainian, that little tiny overlap is called Galicia. It's going to be important for a certain kind of moment. I'm going to say the 1880s to the 1980s for about a century. The central, the natural center of Ukrainian politics is actually the east.