From 12 January 1972 to 1973, a wide-reaching purge of Ukrainian society and intelligentsia was organised by Leonid Brezhnev and the KGB. Codenamed Operation...

support political prisoners from the Ukrainian National Front [uk]. Antoniv was arrested during the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge after organising Vertep and Koliada...

in the USSR of Andrei Sakharov. Franko was arrested amidst the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge alongside Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska, a descendant of Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky...

teacher in the village of Tashan [uk]. With the beginning of the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge, the leaders of the Sixtier were arrested and reform-minded Petro...

alongside Mykhailo Kosiv and head editor Chornovil. During the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge Kendzior protested against the mass arrests of intelligentsia...

said that using "the Ukraine" implies disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty. The official Ukrainian position is that "the Ukraine" is both grammatically...

an inferior position relative to its Russian counterpart. The 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge that saw the arrests of political dissidents close to Badzyo such...

sentence in Poltava Oblast. Romaniuk was again imprisoned during the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for anti-Soviet agitation...

accused of being supported by Ukrainian nationalists and Zionists. The newspaper supported the 1972–1973 Ukrainian purge. In the late 1970s, Evening Kyiv...

16 February 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1972 to 1989. A close ally of...

1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician who served as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party from 1965 until his removal in 1972. Ideologically...

(Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Максимович Чорновіл; 24 December 1937 – 25 March 1999) was a Ukrainian politician and Soviet dissident. As a prominent Ukrainian...

spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant...

the Ukrainian SSR. Vinnytsia won the championship of the republic twice, in 1964 and 1984, and in 1972 and 1973 Lokomotiv even won the Cup of Ukraine. On...

School (established in Winter 1972–1973, dissolved in January 1977) Party of New Communists (established in Winter 1972–1973, dissolved in January 1977)...

related to his affinity towards Ukrainian nationalism. He was an active protester following the 1965–1966 Ukrainian purge. In 1969 a report by the Committee...

the actions of the 1st Ukrainian and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. On 1 March, Zhukov was appointed the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Front until early May following...

member and First Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Branch, in response to them accusing a member of the Ukrainian Central Committee of being anti-socialist...

Marshal Fedor von Bock, p. 100 Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance (2015). Ukraine in World War II. Ukraine: Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance...

was one of the two most senior army commanders that survived the Great Purge and in post at the time of German invasion of the USSR in 1941. After the...

ideology in the United States, 1837–1846(1983) Susan Dunn, Roosevelt's Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party (2010) pp. 202-213. Kane...

Filatov (born 1972) – The current mayor of Dnipro. Yuriy Tkach (born 1983) Ukrainian comedian and actor. Kyrylo Tymoshenko (born 1989) Ukrainian politician...

Soviet Union and Ukrainian independence in 1991, Kyiv remained Ukraine's capital and experienced a steady influx of ethnic Ukrainian migrants from other...

Polish–Ukrainian War. However, Soviet forces regained strength after their victories in the Russian Civil War, and Symon Petliura, leader of the Ukrainian People's...

Kropyvnytskyi (Ukrainian: Кропивницький, IPA: [kropɪu̯ˈnɪtsʲkɪj] ) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul River. It serves as the administrative...

Catalonia (1938). In the preface of a 1947 Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, he explained how escaping the communist purges in Spain taught him "how easily totalitarian...

and who was a fierce opponent of Ukrainian independence. It is well documented that his negative views on Ukrainian independence became more radical over...

adopted by Slavic cavalry (cossacks, haidamaka), under the name bunchuk (Ukrainian: бунчук, Polish: buńczuk) which is the reflection of the original Turkic...

cities of Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk had a rather large share of education conducted in Ukrainian. In Kiev 26.8% of pupils studied in Ukrainian and 73.1%...

the third far place taken by Kiev (Ukrainian SSR). At its inception, the Top 5 was completed by Kharkov (Ukrainian SSR) and Baku (Azerbaijan SSR), but...