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16: Colonization, Extermination, Ethnic Cleansing

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Ukrainian Political Life, Not in the Soviet Union, but in Poland

The peasants get the land in early 1940 and then collectivization starts in late 1940s. So, the stage is very short and peasants are generally disillusioned by collectivization. And even many West Ukrainian communists are disillusioned by this. All of the legal political parties that had existed under Poland are now dissolved. The communists are now discredited, which leaves who? Hmm? Okay, among Ukrainian political parties. The situation has selected for the nationalists. There are three larger policies attached to this invasion that are formally by the Germans. First is what they call the final solution, which is initially the idea that the Jews will somehow be deported out of the way to Madagascar, to Siberia,. but

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