excerpts from an article by an us academic proving that most statesmen thought of little russia/ukraine and its regions as an integral part of russia; that separatist attempts were the work of the rival empires of britain, france, germany and austria, hellbent on carving up the territorial integrity of russia and diving it in zones of influence; and that a small class of intellectuals in galicia, tied to berlin and vienna was responsible for those separatist attempts, rather than the masses of peasants.
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