The history and evolution of Ukrainian national identity
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Ukranian Nationalism and World War II
In august 19 39, just a few months before war broke out, nancy, germany signed a non aggression pact with the soviet union. A pact of non aggression divided poland. So territories of poland now were annexed bysoviet union and that included western ukraine. And then came world war too. In 19 forty one natsi s war on the sovie union, invades Western Ukraine. The first territory that it invades are the western territories of the sovive union,. including western ukraina. These territories in western ukranda, had never been part of the russian empire or the soviv
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