The Ukrainian State (Ukrainian: Українська держава, Ukrains’ka Derzhava) or The Hetmanate (Ukrainian: Гетьманат, Het’manat) was a short-lived polity in Ukraine installed after the Central Rada of the Ukrainian People's Republic was disbanded on 28 April 1918. It was created by Ukrainian Cossacks with the support of the Central Powers.
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“Only by the supernatural is a man strong; nothing is so weak as an egotist. Nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)