[spanalot]

"Lemkos were too far to the west and too stubborn to submit to this political manipulation."

This article documents the success of the Russian church in dissolving the cultural identity of a significant segment of Ukrainians. The Russian Orthodox church has successfully inflicted these people with cutural amnesia so that they have no idea of their backgroud.

Fortunately, Ukrainian groups are successfully resurecting the collective memory of a near extinct European culture .

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:J5xl6h6zy7kJ:www.lemko.org/lemko/vatra/2005VatraUS.pdf+SUM+lemko+vatra&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[A. Pole]

This article documents the success of the Russian church in dissolving the cultural identity of a significant segment of Ukrainians.

It is projecting present or desired future into the past. The separate "cultural identity" of Ukrainians was not being disolved but was being created. Further into past you go the closer are the all branches of Rus.