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At various times, Ukraine has been part of sundry political conglomerates. It’s been part of the Russian Empire, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and part of a coalition consisting of what is now Poland-Lithuania-Ukraine.
It was also controlled by the Nazis during World War II and part of “Grosse Deutschland” — the Nazi version of Akhand Germany. Ukraine was also a founder-member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with a vote in the UN and a stash of nuclear weapons, which it surrendered in 1991.
Many modern nations could, therefore, point to a historical connection and argue this translates
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