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Ivan the Rudnitsky's Don'tself, I'm Going to Let You Guess.
The Don'tself tradition of what we call ethnic nationalism is important in Ukrainian political life. It matters in Ukrainian diaspora, it continues in North America. Ivan the Rudnitsky was holically Jewish. His grandmother was born Edith Spiegel. In the Habsburg monarchy she married a Ukrainian. They had five children after he died early and they raised the children to be Ukrainian. We're in Galicia in the Habsberg monarchy. Not bad. The common language was Polish. And anybody want to take a shot at that? You can only act on the basis of what really is. But the nation itself is a political act directed towards the future. Which means that any