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2: The Genesis of Nations

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Imperial Nation Problem

In Russia today, this is very evident in the thought of a character called Ivan Ileen who for several years Putin read. The world itself is flawed, but Russia has a kind of mission of restoring the innocence of the world. Nations that are peripheral or anti-colonial, anti-imperial, very often have a different structure of story. They're focused on a time when everything was all right. A rebirth is a strange idea if you think about it at all, right? It's very weird.

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