In 1772, a year before the Boston Tea Party, a country with an elected king and a parliament stretched from the Baltic Sea to the banks of the Dnipro River south of Kyiv. This was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which for several hundred years was one of Europe’s largest and most populous countries.
Ukraine had a complex relationship with this major…
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