Ukrainian National Association

The Ukrainian National Association (UNA) (Ukrainian: Український народний союз, romanized: Ukrainskyi narodnyi soiuz), known before 1914 as the Ruthenian National Union (Ukrainian: Руський Народний Союз, romanized: Ruskyi Narodnyi Soiuz), is a North American fraternal organization founded in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1894, when the first wave of immigrants from the territories of today's Western Ukraine came to the United States and Canada. == History == Originally called the Ruthenian National Union (Ukrainian: Руський Народний Союз, romanized: Ruskyi Narodnyi Soiuz), it was partly established to counter the influence of the Hungarian-oriented Greek Catholic Union of the USA. The Union adopted the newspaper Svoboda (Liberty) as its organ and sought to develop a distinctly Ukrainian identity.

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