
14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Volinian Experiment From 1928
Ukrainian nationalists assassinated Polish officials in 26, and you get a spiral of reprisals. And then even in Galicia, there just wasn't a kind of fresh terrain to work in. What Pilsutsky does is that he tries to reverse this. He places Ukrainians in Volinia in local government. He encourages the use of the Ukrainian language in the Orthodox Church. If you're Poland, it's better to have something between you and Russia. But in general, one has to ask, it has been a little bit critical, all the same.
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