Though the protests grew substantially over the next few days …, what turned them into a mass movement was the government’s clumsy use of violence. In the mid-1920 Russia tried another approach and gave some room for Ukrainian culture, literature, newspapers and language.

However, I am sure that this common history is also one of the reason for the strong support of Poland for Ukraine.Annexing the Black Sea steppe, Russia was "gathering the Russians lands," rebuilding the ancient kingdom of Rus.

There were in particular Rose Ausländer, Alfred Margul-Sperber, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger and many others. Also in 2015 countries of the European Union provided Ukraine with money to help the economy, but they did not deliver weapons and Poroshenko, even so grateful for the humanitarian aid, mentioned that Ukraine could not “win the war with blankets”. On my preliminary list were Isaac Babel’s Odessa Stories, Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes, and Joseph Roth’s Reisen in die Ukraine und nach Russland ( “Journeys in the Ukraine and to Russia”) which he wrote in the 1920s, therefore nothing about the modern country Ukraine. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.I felt that I was scratching the surface, but at least I have some awareness of that surface now for further reading around the subjects.