What is "Moscow Set Out to Erase Ukrainian Nationalism. Instead, It Hardened It." about?

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by PUBLIUS KYIV—For much of the past four years, Russia’s war in Ukraine has been explained in the West primarily through the language of geopolitics. It is presented as a dispute over territory, spheres of influence, NATO expansion or competing security interests.

Moscow Set Out to Erase Ukrainian Nationalism. Instead, It Hardened It.

Democratic societies are right to examine political movements critically, particularly those with strong nationalist rhetoric.

But understanding why such movements like Ukraine’s Centuria emerge is just as important as evaluating them.

Ukraine has spent