 The Soviet Ukrainian government funded a Ukrainian emigre journal called "Nova Hromada" (first published in July 1923) to encourage this trend.The Soviets referred to this movement as a Ukrainian Smena Vekh, as did its opponents among the Ukrainian emigres, who saw it as a defeatist expression of Little Russian Russophilia.For this reason, the actual proponents of the trend rejected the label of "Smenovekhovtsy".