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"You should also take note that the country is called Ukraine and not The Ukraine, the latter was a vassal serf of the Soviet Union the former is a free country."
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Not quite, as there are no grammatical articles such as "the" and "a" in neither the Russian nor the Ukrainian languages.
The Soviet republic was called the "Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic", the modern state "Ukraine" and the "the Ukraine" likely refers to the historic region.
effects of ukraine politics for cossack energy, page-5
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