Growing up in Hamtramck, I had many Ukrainian friends who were members of the Ukrainian Church on McDougal.

Putin says that Ukraine isn't a country. And Poles thought likewise when the Zaporozhian Sich became a destination for runaway Commonwealth serfs and for prisoners fleeing the slave market in Crimea.

Little known fact: Christopher Columbus learned seamanship on Genoese slave ships in the Crimean trade route before he became a slaver in the New World...