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Originally Posted by The Big Yin
No love for papa Brezhnev?
He was the leader of the U.S.S.R at the height of it’s power and he was a Ukrainian just like his predecessor if nothing else that makes him important. 
EDIT: Also I have ask, arnt Cossacks a separate group from Ukrainians who just happened to settle on lands now part of modern Ukraine, because you get Russian Cossacks too that implies they are a separate transnational group. |
Yes they're a separate group but they gave birth to political consciousness in Ukraine, counting them as Ukrainian heroes is a bit of a stretch but since there is a very solid connection between Cossack uprisings and birth of Ukraine i guess you could fit them into "Ukraine's heroes".