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During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (''u kraya'') they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.
 
During decades, the Poles were engaged in the ”Polonization“ of this part of the population: they introduced their language there, tried to entrench the idea that this population was not exactly Russians, that because they lived on the fringe (''u kraya'') they were “Ukrainians”. Originally, the word ‘Ukrainian’ meant that a person was living on the outskirts of the state, near the fringe, or was engaged in border service. It didn’t mean any particular ethnic group.
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[[File:Nazi propaganda from US Embassy Moscow.jpg|right|500px|thumb|[[Historical revisionism]], [[Russophobia]], and [[Nazi]] [[propaganda]] tweeted by the US Embassy in Moscow, February 22, 2022, two days before the start of the [[special military operation]].]]
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[[File:Nazi propaganda from US Embassy Moscow.jpg|right|500px|thumb|[[Historical revisionism]], [[Russophobia]], and racist [[Nazi]] [[propaganda]] tweeted by the US Embassy in Moscow, February 22, 2022, two days before the start of the [[special military operation]].]]
 
So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…
 
So, the Poles were trying in every possible way to polonize this part of the Russian lands and actually treated it rather harshly, not to say cruelly. All that led to the fact that this part of the Russian lands began to struggle for their rights. They wrote letters to Warsaw demanding that their rights be observed and that people be commissioned here, including to Kiev…
  
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