Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, many people around the world didn’t know much about Ukraine. For most people who weren’t involved with the Ukrainian diaspora, it was just a vague area in Eastern Europe with an unclear history, an unknown culture, and even doubts about whether it was a separate nation. For hundreds of years, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, and finally the Soviet Union ruled over Ukraine. They systematically