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Of course the leaders of Ukraine’s new government understood they were taking on the insurmountable when revolution delivered them into office less than four weeks ago. They were set on reversing the course of Ukrainian history, bringing democracy to a country that had never known it, destroying corruption where it had always flourished, creating a modern economy from one still mired in the Soviet past.

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