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The World Is Not the Center of Everything
A major theme of European history and global history is the theme of colonialism. The Poles are going beyond classical knowledge, which is a very important thing locally, but also globally. It's hard to get away from the impression that both in the early modern and as we'll see the modern periods, the idea of being colonized applies pretty well to Ukraine. When the Russian Empire becomes the Russian Empire, we define itself as an empire. What does it mean to become an empire and to colonize Europe? What does that mean? There's a lot of ambiguity in that.