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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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