15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Third Way You Buy Time
In the 1920s, inside Soviet Ukraine, you have affirmative action for Ukrainians. As against Russians and Jews, chiefly, the Ukrainians moving in from the countryside to the cities up through the ranks. And then we're only 100 years on when Ukraine is much more clearly there. Its existence is denied. So you try to buy time with a national question. This was not, I mean, this is an interesting policy. Around the Soviet Union it was called, like, Kornazatsia, like, rooting. In Ukraine it was usually called Ukrainianazatia, Ukraineizing.
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