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[–]Theoldsandwich 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

People act like there was time when Ukraine wasn't dominated by neo-nazis. It would be weird to not be when their entire nationality is built around hating Russians and Poles

[–]CottageSamuelSlovak 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wait. Poles too? Why?

[–]Theoldsandwich 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Piłsudski promised Ukrainians to support the creation of their free state if we both happen to win the war with Soviets, we did but Dmowski, the Polish nationalist who cared only about destroying Piłsudski's image waltzed in and basically supported Soviets during the negotiations, which ended in Ukraine being split between Poles and Soviets with Soviets getting the bigger part.

The negotiations were overall a disaster as we went from being able to reduce USSR to a rump state to barely getting 2nd partition territories. To quote Piłsudski "I'm sorry gentlemen, I'm so very sorry, It wasn't supposed to be like that"