This day in history

1920: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree nationalizing all forestlands formerly run by Russia’s government, monasteries, convents and landlords.

1922: A plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Russia [RKP(b)] elects Joseph Stalin as CC Secretary General.

1973: The Soviet [Council] of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR institutes the annual literary prize Chuttia yedynoi rodyny (Feelings of One Unified Family), named for Pavlo Tychyna, using the title of one of his pro-Soviet poems, for “outstanding creative merits in instilling socialist internationalism into the working people.”

1990: The true Ukrainian national flag is unfurled on top of Lviv’s City Hall.

1995: The Western European Union’s delegation pays the first official visit to Ukraine.

1995: Ukraine and Israel sign a protocol on the reciprocal establishment of culture and information centers and their activities.