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What a view from the West-North of these regions, when one day the spirit of civilization (Kultur) will visit them! The Ukraine will become a new Greece: the beautiful heaven of this people, their merry existence, their musical nature, their fruitful land, and so on, will one day awaken: out of so many little wild peoples (kleinen wilden Völkern), as the Greeks were also once, a mannered (gesittete) nation will come to be: their borders will stretch out to the Black Sea and from there through the world. Hungary, these nations, and an area of Poland and Russia will be participants in this new civilization (Kultur); from the northwest this spirit will go over Europe, which lies in sleep, and make it subservient (dienstbar) to this spirit. This all lies ahead, and must one day happen; but how? When? Through whom?

Johann Gottfried Herder, Journal meiner Reise im Jahr 1769

«Будь ласка, давайте не будемо варварами!»

(Please, let’s not be barbarians!)

Sign hanging in the entryway of an apartment building in Kyiv, 2011