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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 

10 April, 1999 - 00:00

April 13, 1944:  Soviet troops take Simferopol from the
Germans. April 14, 1768:   the Koliyivshchyna, the largest
Haidamaky rebellion against Polish dominance, breaks out in Ukraine. April
14, 1919: 
  the Soviet government decrees the foundation
of a corrective labor camp system, marking the beginning of the notorious
GULAG Archipelago. April 14, 1994:   Ukraine accedes to
the CIS Economic Union Treaty as an associate member. April 16, 1710:  
Pylyp Orlyk is elected Hetman of Ukraine in exile. April 16, 1995:  
direct international telephone code 380 becomes operational (Ukraine was
the first post-Soviet country to receive such a code). April 17, 1924:  
the All-Ukraine Central Executive Committee passes a decree to care for
homeless children. April 17, 1970:   the Ukraine Palace
of Culture, one of the USSR's largest such institutions, opens in Kyiv.
April 18, 1947:   the first Soviet A-4 ballistic missile
is launched from the trial ground of Kapustin Yar. April 19, 1937:  
the Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR passes a decree on
the National Emblem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. April
19, 1979:
USSR Council of Ministers resolves to open a state university
in Zaporizhzhia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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