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17: Reforms, Recentralization, Dissidence: 1950s-1970s

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Ukrainian Nationality

The OO, in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, this small group which became important briefly during the Second World War and after. It had a very specific notion of what the Ukrainian nation was with a leader who would have absolute power. The Ukrainian ethos was thought to be a kind of super group, super, you know, the Uber mention among all the other peoples. And it's also very different, I'll note something else. They lost, the Upa lost, and the Ukrainian state as is currently configured, which is on a very different basis with a Jewish democratically elected president and a very horizontally organized civil society. That Ukrainian setup is not only the one that we have, but

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