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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 

26 June, 1999 - 00:00

June 29, 1945: Transcarpathian Ukraine is annexed to Soviet Ukraine.

June 29, 1967:  Soviet-Czechoslovak Druzhba (Friendship)
pipeline becomes operational.

June 30, 1941:  the National Assembly proclaims the Act
of Restoration of Ukrainian Statehood in Lviv.

June 30, 1956: CPSU Central Committee passes a resolution on
the elimination of Joseph Stalin's personality cult and its consequences.

July 1, 1910: a student demonstration demanding the opening of
a Ukrainian university is held in Lviv.

July 1, 1937: the USSR Council of People's Commissars adopts
a resolution on state nature preserves.

July 2, 1976: a monument to Soviet citizens and prisoners of
war executed by the Nazis in 1941-43 is unveiled at Babyn Yar without mentioning
that most of the victims were Jews.

July 2, 1993: the first All-Ukrainian Convention of the Congress
of Ukrainian Nationalists is held in Kyiv.

July 3, 1942: Soviet troops retreat from Sevastopol after 250
days of pitched battles.

July 2, 1974: the USSR and US sign a treaty restricting underground
nuclear tests.

July 4, 1941: German occupation authorities arrest the government
of independent Ukraine in Lviv.

July 4, 1958: the Kharkiv Tractor Factory produced its 500,000th
tractor.

July 5, 1918: the First Congress of the Communist Party (bolshevik)
of Ukraine opens in Moscow.

July 5, 1991: the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR passes
a resolution instituting the office of the President.

 

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