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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, 04:14 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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And he was assassinated a year later frazzled Mar 2014 #1

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

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

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