Essentially what we consider "Ukrainians and Belarusians" in the era were a small literate class, as the distinction between those two languages and Russian was a primarily written one at that time (and of course most *Russians* were illiterate, that was one of the only good things the USSR left behind). The German attempts to create things like the Hetmanate were a disaster waiting to happen. It wouldn't have been on par with Reichscommisariat Ukraine but then some fences are so low any cow can jump over them.
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Essentially what we consider "Ukrainians and Belarusians" in the era were a small literate class, as the distinction between those two languages and Russian was a primarily written one at that time (and of course most *Russians* were illiterate, that was one of the only good things the USSR left behind). The German attempts to create things like the Hetmanate were a disaster waiting to happen. It wouldn't have been on par with Reichscommisariat Ukraine but then some fences are so low any cow can jump over them.