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====Ukrainian Hetman movement====

After his abdication on 14 December 1918, Ukrainian hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi emigrated to Germany. From there he led the so-called Hetman movement ({{langx|uk|Гетьманський рух}}), which consisted of a number of Ukrainian [[conservatism|conservative]] [[monarchism|monarchist]] organizations from different groups of [[Ukrainian diaspora]].<ref>{{cite web |title= Skoropadsky, Pavlo |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CK%5CSkoropadskyPavlo.htm}}</ref> Most prominent of these organizations were the Ukrainian Union of Agrarians-Statists ({{langx|uk|Український союз хліборобів-державників}}) founded in [[Vienna]] by [[Vyacheslav Lypynsky]]i and [[Serhiy Shemet]], and the United Hetman Organization ({{langx|uk|Союз гетьманців державників}}) active in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. In his "Letters to Brothers Agrarians", published in 1926, Lypynskyi elaborated the idea of an independent, [[oligarchy|classocratic]], pan-Ukrainian "toilers' monarchy" without political parties, ruled by hetman and his dynasty with the help of an agrarian aristocracy and the co-operation of the productive classes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ukrainian Union of Agrarians-Statists |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CU%5CK%5CUkrainianUnionofAgrarians6Statists.htm}}</ref> In Canada and the United States the Hetman movement emerged from the pre-[[WW1]] [[Plast|Sich scouting societies]] and was implicitly supported by the [[Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church]]. The movement supported the re-establishment of the Hetman state of Pavlo Skoropadskyi and devoted a lot of energy to military training of Ukrainian emigrés for the future liberation of their homelandgoing as far as to acquire a number of airplanes. In 1940 the Canadian branch of the organization became one of the founders of the [[Ukrainian Canadian Congress]]. The North American Hetman movement reached the height of its influence around 1937-1938, when it was visited by [[Danylo Skoropadsky]]i, the hetman's son and successor. However, the organizations lost their influence during [[WW2]] and in the following years due to internal splits and government investigations into their activity.<ref>{{cite web|title=United Hetman Organization |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CU%5CN%5CUnitedHetmanOrganization.htm}}</ref>