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has equally shown that the Ukrainian State is also based on the subjective principles: the national spirit, the will of the people. This national basis is the most substantial foundation for the construction of a State.
On February 22, 1914, in the hour of greatest trial for the Ukrainian people, the bitterest enemy of Ukrainian independence, the Russian Imperialist, Milioukoff himself, was compelled to pronounce (in the speech already cited) the following truths:—
"The Ukrainian movement does exist. We cannot stay it or change it. …"
"… The Ukrainian movement has been invented by no one; the Ukrainian movement exists and will exist, and all attempts to deny it will be fruitless."
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