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Ukraine's Dangerous Independence

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Ucranian Cossacks - The National Mythology

Cossack is derived from the turkic word for free man. For many ucranians, cossacks represent resistance to outside control. But we should be clear, the cossacks weren't just some homogeneous, heroic group of freedom fighters. They also carried out massacres of jews in the region in the seventeenth century.

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