当然，几个世纪来俄国、波兰、立陶宛和奥匈帝国的统治方法多种多样，使得创造只有一种主流文化的典型"民族国家"变得难以想象。
Certainly, the diversity of forms of governance used over the centuries by Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Austria-Hungary when they ruled what is now Ukraine make creating a classic "nation state," with one dominant culture, difficult to imagine.