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neither the Poles nor the Russians wanted to concede that their agricultural breadbasket had an independent identity.
“Ukraine has always aspired to be free.”
The meeting went on as it was supposed to, under full democracy.
History offers hope as well as tragedy. In the end, Ukraine was not destroyed. The Ukrainian language did not disappear. The desire for independence did not disappear either—and neither did the desire for democracy, or for a more just society, or for a Ukrainian state that truly represented Ukrainians.
