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===Ukrainians===
The pre-war government also restricted the rights of people who declared Ukrainian nationality, belonged to the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and inhabited the [[Eastern Borderlands]] of the Second Polish Republic.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imswAAAAIAAJ&q=ukrainophobia+poland |title=Polish Atrocities in Ukraine |first=Emil |last=Revyuk |date=8 July 1931 |publisher=Svoboda Press |via=Google Books |access-date=29 August 2020 |archive-date=15 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215014222/https://books.google.com/books?id=imswAAAAIAAJ&q=ukrainophobia+poland |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Skalmowski"/><ref name="The Polish Review"/> Poland refused to grant the Ukrainian minority a [[Autonomous administrative division|territorial autonomy]].<ref name="Potocki">{{cite book |last= Potocki |first= Robert |title= Polityka państwa polskiego wobec zagadnienia ukraińskiego w latach 1930–1939 |chapter = Rozdział 3: Od konsolidacji państwowej do homogenizacji etnicznej |language= PL |publisher= Instytut Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej w Lublinie |date = 2003 |pages= 199–227|isbn= 83-917615-4-1}}</ref> [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]] was restricted in every field possible, especially in governmental institutions, and the term "Ruthenian" was enforced in an attempt to ban the use of the term "Ukrainian".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/communistpartyof00radz |quote=ukrainophobia poland rights. |title=The Communist Party of Western Ukraine, 1919-1929 |first1=Janusz |last1=Radziejowski |first2=University of Alberta Canadian Institute of Ukrainian |last2=Studies |date=8 July 1983 |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta |via=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-920862-25-4}}</ref> Ukrainians were categorised as uneducated second-class peasants or [[third world]] people, and rarely settled outside the Eastern Borderland region due to the prevailing [[Ukrainophobia]] and restrictions imposed. Numerous attempts at restoring the Ukrainian state were suppressed and any existent violence or terrorism initiated by the [[Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists]] was emphasised to create the image of a "brutal Eastern savage".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://klubjagiellonski.pl/2016/10/10/ii-rp-nie-lubila-ukraincow/ |title=II RP nie lubiła Ukraińców? |website=klubjagiellonski.pl |access-date=8 July 2019 |archive-date=8 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708160652/https://klubjagiellonski.pl/2016/10/10/ii-rp-nie-lubila-ukraincow/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After 1935, Polish policy towards Ukrainians shifted its focus from state consolidation to the ethnic assimilation of part of the Ukrainian population through [[Polonization]] and conversion to [[Latin Church|Roman Catholicism]].<ref name="Potocki"/>