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9: Polish Power and Cossack Revolution

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The Polish Connection

Ukrainian clerics started their own academies and use Greek. They forced themselves to learn Greek, which they'd been lazy about for the previous six centuries. The Polish connection is very interesting but hugely polarizing because it puts a small number of people with one language and one religion against a much larger group of people who don't have those three things.

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