For a brief period. from 1918 to 1920. a free Ukrainian state warded off Bolshevik attempts at subversion only to succumb to Red army invasion. Since then. Ukrainians have fought. subtly and sometimes in the open. to maintain their identity as a nation. They have suffered through collectivization. purges. deportations. and Russification campaigns. They still struggle today against the Kremlins aim of creating a Soviet man. void of any feeling of nationality. Their culture remains suppressed. they are not permitted to express feelings of national loyalty. and their religion has been blotted out in favor of the Russian brand of orthodoxism.
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