- Location
- New York
It is worth remembering that Galicia and Lodomeria was sold by the Austrians to Russia in 1869 in this timeline. In OTL, Galicia under Habsburg rule was a relative safe zone for Ukrainian nationalists and the Habsburgs deliberately encouraged Ukrainian nationalist sentiment to a degree in the region as part of a divide and rule strategy. In this timeline, Galicia has been subject to Russian rule and likely to Russification policies. The Ukrainian nationalist movement in Galicia would have suffered a level of oppression it didn't suffer in OTL. On the other hand, there would have been more contact and less separation among Ukrainian nationalists between Eastern Galicia and the rest of Ukraine without the Austrian-Russian border to divide them. So, there might be less of a cultural divide between East Galicia and the rest of Ukraine.