it was difficult for the peasant to immediately cross himself from russin to ukrainian; it was difficult to trample on what was sacred and dear to him. it was even more difficult for him to understand why ukrainian professors somehow vaguely, cunningly prodigally change russia into ukraine and confuse one name with another. with all their being, the people realized that what was happening was untruth, falsehood, and treason. from the end of the 19th century to the already revolutionary event of this year. in this territory, 300 russian schools were closed and destroyed, that is, the war was literally with with all the sprouts and manifestations of russian. on july 28 , 1914, the first world war began. almost immediately, the austrian authorities declared the orthodox rusins, who then lived in galician russia, to be accomplices of the russian empire, which was at war with germany and austria-hungary, and began to say... “you must be hanged or shot.” this is how thousands of russians ended up in austrian prisons. the ukrainians, reformatted by the enlightened and greek catholic church, wer