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17: Reforms, Recentralization, Dissidence: 1950s-1970s

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Introduction

The Second World War is a kind of new starting point for the legitimation of the Soviet Union. It's also a starting point for many other stories, many other nations about who they are. The closer you get to the conflict, the more true this is. So we have to make sure that we get the Second World War right in order for us to watch how that political memory forms. And then we can then we'll have some way to evaluate what's going on today.

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