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elleng

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3. 'In the Ukraine matters were further complicated by the massacre of national hopes.

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Mon Mar 3, 2014, 05:14 PM

Mar 2014

Nowhere did restrictions, purges, repressions and in general all forms of bureaucratic hooliganism assume such murderous sweep as they did in the Ukraine in the struggle against the powerful, deeply-rooted longings of the Ukrainian masses for greater freedom and independence ...

In my opinion there can be at the present time only one such slogan: A united, free and independent workers’ and peasants’ Soviet Ukraine.'

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Trotsky on Ukraine [View all] TBF Mar 2014 OP

And he was assassinated a year later frazzled Mar 2014 #1

Oligarchs don't like to be threatened - TBF Mar 2014 #2

'In the Ukraine matters were further complicated by the massacre of national hopes. elleng Mar 2014 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author goziosskiy Mar 2014 #4

Thank you for your comments! nt TBF Mar 2014 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author goziosskiy Apr 2014 #7

Thanks for posting this, and that blog looks good. joshcryer Mar 2014 #5