Some Ukraine Hitory

A LENGTHY HISTORY: (Polish, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Ukrainian, etc. intertwined history)- Some of the tortured twisted history of the region and people, known as 'Ukraine',

Comment: This indepth history, only one study among many,  of that tortured region of eastern and southern European history and its varied peoples, give ...one... small glimpse as to why there is today, there, still so many troubles and divisions-even before Putin's new added interventions and invasion and warfare.

 http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5cP%5cO%5cPoland.htm

*After reading just a small portion of this extremely complicated history, is it any wonder that today, this region is still a very very confused place on this earth!...even before Putin's current interventions.

Excerpt, in this study,  about the history of, 'The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church':

 The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox church (PAOC) emerged in the 1920s as a body serving the needs of the approximately four million Ukrainian, Belarusian, and (to a lesser extent) Russian and Polish adherents of Orthodoxy. The majority of them were located in the areas of interwar Poland that had been in the Russian Empire (notably the Kholm region). In the interwar era the PAOC maintained a strong Ukrainophile current, and during the Second World War PAOC bishops played an important role in the establishment of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church. Nevertheless a strong Russophile current existed within the church hierarchy. The Poles maintained their efforts to convert the Orthodox population to Catholicism, in some cases by force and in general through the launching of the neo-union [ i.e.  Uniatism, -joining to the Papacy], campaign.
After the Second World War the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox church, under pressure from the Soviet authorities, lost its independence. In 1945 Metropolitan Dionisii Valedinsky was removed from his post; it was filled in 1951 by a Russian Orthodox hierarch. More significant, the 1924 Tomos issued by the Patriarch of Constantinople, which provided the PAOC with its autocephaly, was revoked in 1948 by the Patriarch of Moscow, who now brought the church under his jurisdiction. Since then the Russian language has occupied a more prominent position in ecclesiastical affairs, and much of the Ukrainian character of the church has been muted. At present the PAOC has approx 500,000 faithful (primarily Ukrainians and Belarusians) and is centered in Podlaskie voivodeship, with smaller concentrations in the other voivodeships