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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

16 August, 2011 - 00:00

1820: Prince Oleksandr Bezborodko finances the establishment of the so-called Gymnasium of Higher Knowledge in Nizhyn (now Nizhyn Gogol State University).

1884: Isaak Mazepa, Ukrainian public and political figure, historian, member of the Central Rada, is born in Novhorod-Siversky.

1914: The Supreme Ukrainian Rada issues a manifesto urging the Ukrainian people to struggle on for national liberation.

1941: Soviet Supreme Command Headquarters issues Directive No.270, whereby command officers and politruk [NKVD-controlled and empowered. – Ed.] propaganda officers, if and when captured by the Wehrmacht, are to be regarded as deserters and their families arrested and exiled.

1941: Pitched battles between the Soviet and Wehrmacht troops at the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia bridgeheads.

1945: The Soviet Union and Poland sign the Border Agreement whereby the frontier line runs alongside the river Buh and east from the river Sian.

1957: The Fourth Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth is held in Kyiv.

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