r/europe • u/MarktpLatz Lower Saxony (Germany) • Apr 03 '17

What do you know about... Ukraine?

This is the eleventh part of our ongoing series about the countries of Europe. You can find an overview here.

Todays country:

Ukraine

Ukraine is the largest country that is completely on the european continent. The Ungarian people's republic was founded in 1917, the ukrainian state in 1918. It later became part of the soviet union and finally got independent in 1991. Currently, Ukraine is facing military combat with russia-backed rebels and the crimean peninsula was completely annexed by Russia. Ukraine will host the next eurovision song contest.

So, what do you know about Ukraine?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '17

Kievan Rus was the huge Eastern Slavic empire.
Ukrainians have a large diaspora, worldwide! Especially so in Canada.
Ukrainian uses the letter і instead of Russian и, and uses и instead of Russian ы.
Ukraine had its own genocide/mass death, whatever you choose to call it, in the 2nd World War era, called Holodomor.

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u/Reza_Jafari M O S K A L P R I D E Apr 04 '17

Kievan Rus was the huge Eastern Slavic empire.

Actually IDK if it was identifiable as Ukrainian

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u/altnume21 Poland Apr 04 '17

That depends on a definition, Russia claims to be heir of Novgorodian\Kievan Rus, Ukraine claims it as well.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

We're not. It was thousand years ago. I don't think it matters now.

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u/irimiash Which flair will you draw on your forehead? Apr 04 '17

on that logic Ukraine can claims to be Commonwealth

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17 edited Apr 04 '17

Commonwealth was a bit like Roman Empire - it has multiple possible successor states, so if modern Ukrainians didn't consider RzePa as literally Hitler and Satan incarnate they probably could.