19th-century Polish-Ukrainian friendship. How the Greek Catholics fought Russia and Poles supported them

Catholics of the Greek rite, or Unity, after the partitions of the Republic came under the regulation of Russia. The Tsarist authorities tried to break their bond with Rome, forcing them to convert to Orthodoxy and applying brutal repression for decades. Legal discrimination, confiscations, fines, and even bloody pacifications have failed. Polish Roman Catholics played a crucial function in this. The text is part of [...]