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13: Republics and Revolutions

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The West Ukrainian National Army Is the Best Ukrainian Army in the Field

Ukrainian National Council, which as the situation in the Russian Empire radicalizes, itself takes more radical positions until it finds itself basically backed into declaring full national independence with the so-called fourth universal in early 1918. Meanwhile, there is also a different progression in the Habsburg monarchy, where the state is functioning until the, really until the very end, but the moment the state is over, Ukrainian soldiers and Ukrainian bureaucrats immediately declare the night from the, the, actually right around now, the last night of October to the first day of November. The West Ukrainian National Republic lasts for about half a year. But the West Ukrainian army is still the best Ukrainian army in the field.

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