There is still much to learn about Ukrainian history - with historian Andrii Portnov
Explaining Ukraine
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The History of Ukrainian Political Thought
The history of Ukrainian political thought is much richer and deeper than one would expect, he says. Foshevchenko, Fodra Romano, for many, many others, fighting for Ukrainian, national, cultural, language, some recognition was simultaneously a social program. And that is why this emancipatory strength of Ukrainian movement should not be overlooked or reduced to ethnic nationalism in the first place. Putin actually followed this primitive logic of Ukraine at the ethnic nationalistic state," writes Kuznetsov.
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