Russophilism (Moscophilism)
Russophilism was one of the two (along with
Ukrainophilism) main socio-political and cultural currents of the Ukrainian
movement that existed in Galicia from the 1830s till the interwar period.
Russophiles promoted the religious, cultural, and historical affiliation of the
Galician Ruthenians to the "great Russian space", which was, in their
view, common to the Russians (Great Russians), Belarusians and Ukrainians
(Little Russians). In extreme cases, there were conversions from Greek
Catholicism to Orthodoxy, as well as declarations of national unity with the
Russian people.
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