abstract:The territory of Ukraine has been inhabited for at least six thousand years. It is where the horse was first domesticatedMatossian Shaping World History p.
In a protest against him on Monday in the city of Lviv, Ukraine's Congress of Young Nationalists collected old Soviet history books to turn them into pulp.
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And Russia is merely one border--and a lot of overlapping, dark history--away from Ukraine.
The recent ripple of protest in Poland when Ukraine's outgoing president, Viktor Yushchenko, made the wartime nationalist leader Stepan Bandera a "Hero ofUkraine" was interesting not because it exemplified the two countries' rows over history, but because it came after years in which they had sorted out so much.