18: Before and After the End of History
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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Lemko Dialect of Ukrainian
Nikita Khrushchev is the last leader of the Soviet Union's Flash Russia who you could say really knew something about Ukraine. He was from, as soon as I say this, one of my TAs who shall remain nameless will Google it but he was from a little place I think called Kalinovka. His family went into the Dombas and worked like a lot of Russian workers. Then in the party, he was in Ukraine, in Soviet Ukraine, during the terror. And his longtime partner, later his wife, was a Ukrainian from the far, far, far west, from Vasilkov, which is now actually in Poland. So she was someone who understood
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