OLIVER MACDONALD looks at a little known part of the USSR reported last week. Brizish student Andy Klymchuk has been arrested.
Which country has the highest steel production per head in the Answer: the country here Trotsky grew up. No, no tussia: the Ukraine Quibbling over names? Absolutely because behind that name lies a country whose workers are likely to play the mole of pivor in the strucile tor socialist democracy throughour both Eastern Europe and the USSR In 1968, a Western observer or MONEY SEENW Pact a me of Crechoslovakia noted:
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radio scation in Presov.' He was TeleTie to the station broadcasting for the Ukranian popula castern Slovakia, Soviet Ukraine.
The Soviet troope knew what they were doing. Shortly before bourgeois press past two months shows that the public - above all the intelli Bloodless realisin Creto - is in sympathy with the slovakia and is closely following the various events which have opcarred as a result.
BRIDGES Little wonder that the Soviet remer, Kosygin, called the mar serall responsible for the Preso Kriegel, Jew" Kosygin understood in the Czechoslovak struggle forsocialis democracy the Likrainian masses could "For 49 milion Ukrainians inhabir republic with huge and agricultural sources Comania nd are thes arged Hungary the somber a or aussia proper s far as the river Don explosive political situation in the bridge between isolated national upsurges in Eastern Europe and a democracy throughout the entire region.
CRUSHED The Ukrainian people have hac more than their century evils. Brutally crushed by a tumultuous national and socia revolutionary upsurge in 1917 occupied not only by the Whites by the German Anny, th also Polish Army and the French Atter a brief period of peace and cultural flourishing in tb visation brought death and starvation to millions of NIC DE COMPELS TECH cultural regions. At the very time Stalin was proclaiming the story of socialso, the Ture Sav Communist reporting cannibalism in Ukrain lan villages The consequent Stalinist terror was most savage in the Ukraine. 1937 the Ukrainian CF was dec months after August mated: out of 102 Central Cont mittee members 3 survived; all 17 LICIDOCES DE LAC BOVCHIRCUL, LI whole secretariat and argburo every single regional Party secre Lary and Lik bulk of city 800 district secretaries were dated. And between 19t7 tae Ukrsinian colturaliste ligentsia was almost complerely annihilated.
Then came the brown plague of Nazism. The land was
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