The currently popular story of the Ukraine among the mainstream Ukrainian liberal nationalists is that Ukraine is the original Kievan Rus civilized empire, whereas Russia is a cheap copy of it. This story has some consistency issues, but who would like to be the empire anyway, if you may be a freebooter Cossack, roaming freely in wild steppe? And Cossack communities were essentially maroons, deserters of serfdom in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy.

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