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The Peace Treaty of Brest on the Bug, signed on 3 March 1918, was an opportunity for the Helvetic press to discuss the political future of the nations of Eastern Europe.Particularly interesting was the issue of mutual relations between Poles, Lithuanians, Belarussians and Ukrainians. This subject was primarily discussed in the press of the French-speaking Switzerland, where the ideas of peaceful coexistence of nations were very popular.
Due to the lack of a possibility of non-conflicting ethnic boundaries between the nations concerned, it was postulated the establishment of a federation state.Such a state would eliminate potential national tensions thanks to its system similar to the Swiss one. The discussion about this subject, initiated by Helvetian journalists, provoked the heated polemics of the Polish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian emigré circles and showed that the idea of such a state was impossible. Such an assessment was influenced above all by historical events between the concerned nations, as well as the prevailing national ideology that was incompatible with Swiss solutions.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sb.2017.11.71
Date of publication: 2018-03-21 08:34:34
Date of submission: 2017-07-25 16:28:15
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