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<div style="background-color:yellow;">'''MOD''': As of February 2022, there is a great deal of uncertainty as to the status of Ukraine. Please note that this site is All The Tropes, not All The Politics, and keep the [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment]] in mind while editing this page. Propaganda slanted in either direction will be deleted without warning.</div>
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''Ukrayina'', known in English as '''Ukraine''' or "the Ukraine" (the former is becoming increasingly common) is a former Soviet state, declaring independence in 1991. Before that, it was under Russian and, even earlier, Polish rule, and most famous for its hard-to-pronounce Cossack Host, the Zaporozhians.
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And despite what anyone might tell you, the best vodka does not come from Russia. It comes from Ukraine. But Ukrainian vodka is properly called ''horilka'', not ''vodka''. There's also the Polish wódka, which is pronounced ''vootka''. It's like "whisky" (Scotch and Canadian) vs "whiskey" (Irish and American).
The area of Ukraine south of Lviv (part of Ukrainian Galicia) was transferred from [[Austria]] to Russia in the late 19th century, which prompted the emigration of well over 80% of the rural population of the area to North America. Most emigrants settled in Western [[Canada]] and eastern [[Pennsylvania]]. To this day anything vaguely Central or Eastern European will be assumed in Canada to be Ukrainian.
[[File:Flag_of_Ukraine.svg|thumb|The Ukrainian flag: Golden wheat under a blue sky in the breadbasket of Eastern Europe.]]
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