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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 week in history

3 December, 2002 - 00:00

December 3: 1918. The Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine approved a decree On Creating the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Malfeasance.

1932. By a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR trading meat and livestock was forbidden in all Ukraine’s regions evading execution of the state meat procurements plan.

December 4: 1638. The Cossack Starshyna [senior officers] Rada ratified the Ordinations of the Zaporozhzhian Register.

1925. The first issue of the Komsomolets Ukrayiny republican newspaper (from 1943 Molod Ukrayiny) was published in Kharkiv.

December 5: 1917. The Ukrainian Academy of the Arts (now the National Academy of Pictorial Arts and Architecture) was created in Kyiv.

1994. A memorandum was signed in Budapest On Giving Ukraine Safety Guarantees from the Nuclear Countries: the US, Great Britain, and Russia.

December 6. Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1932. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and the CP(b)U Central Committee passed a decision on blacklisting the villages, ‘maliciously’ failing to fulfill their grain quotas, thus putting them under a blockade.

December 7: 1921. A temporary agreement was signed in Vienna between Russian and Ukrainian SSRs, on one side, and Austria, on the other.

1934. The Council of People’s Commissars of USSR passed a decision On Canceling the Rationing Card System for Bread, Flour, and Cereals.

December 8: 1941. The first twenty-five T-34 tanks were produced by the evacuated Kharkiv Komintern Tractor Plant.

1991. Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine signed an agreement On the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

December 9: 1918. By a Dyrektoriya decision the UNR laws On the Eight Hour Work Day, Implementing Collective Contracts, and the Right for Strikes was renewed.

1972. An energy block with a capacity of 300,000 kWt gave its first energy at the Vuhlehirsk hydroelectric station, the largest in Europe.

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