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кто на ком стоял, короч?
Раньше писали и так например, но первоисточник не нашёл:

The Ukraine holds in the Soviet Union a position comparable with that of Scotland in the United Kingdom. Its language is a dialect of the Russian language; its population an integral part of the Russian family of peoples. Though this “outlying district” of Russia has several times in Russian history fallen a prey to a foreign invader, and has borne the yoke of the Tartar, the Pole and the Lithuanian, the Ukrainian or “Little Russian” people was re-united with their “Great-Russian” brethren in 1667 and 1793.