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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 

6 October, 1998 - 00:00

October 6, 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's rebellious Cossack host
besieges Lviv. October 6, 1918: Kyiv State University is ceremoniously
opened. October 7, 1959: Soviet orbit station Luna-3 photographs
the reverse side of the Moon for the first time. October 7, 1963:
Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States sign a nuclear reductions
agreement. October 8, 1944: Soviet troops take over all of Ukraine.
October 8, 1991: Verkhovna Rada passes the Ukrainian citizenship bill.
October 9, 1942: USSR Supreme Council nullifies the status of military
commissars in the Red Army. October 9, 1991: Association of Youth
Organizations of Ukraine (Ukr. abbr., SMOU) is officially registered. October
10, 1932:
the Dniprohes hydropower station on the river Dnipro is made
operational with the invariable Soviet pomp. October 10, 1941: Soviet
troops have to retreat from the Ukrainian town of Sumy after sustaining
pitched battles with the then victorious Nazi Wehrmacht. October 11,
1921:
Kyiv hosts an All-Ukraine Orthodox Church Council establishing
the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. October 11, 1942: USSR
State Defense Council, headed by Joseph Stalin, resolves to uphold the
partisan movement in Ukraine. October 12, 1920: the Russian Soviet 
Federated Socialist Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
sign a truce and preliminary peace accords with Poland. October 12,
1928:
Aleksandrov Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble makes it first public
appearance.

 

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