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14: Interwar Poland’s Ukrainians

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Polish Politics - Is Poland Better Than the Alternatives?

In the 1920s, many people thinking that maybe the Soviet Union might be better. Feeling left out of Polish politics with justification. There is a right-wing fraction, a very small group called the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In 1926, Yuzif Pilsutsky, the former head of state, comes back to power by way of a military coup. He installs what we can call a managed democracy - it's not democratic but there are political parties.

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