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  • Russophilism (Moscophilism)

    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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