Who is the most important historical figure in Ukrainian history?

[Dekameron]

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".

[Yaroslav]

I think the most important historical figure in Ukrainian history is the first president of Ukraine.

[bubyshka]

thankyou fellow uki's its been interesting reading your answers.
baba<<<my thoughts are always of ukraine.
wondering how different my life would have been had i been born there.

[Ak-Murza]

Taras Shevchenko,Maxim Krivonos,Tugai-bei()

All this nationalistic yapping from both Kiyuv and mAAskva makes me sick.Only a weak-minded "person" would separate my Rodina from my Bat'kivschina.