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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 February, 1998 - 00:00

February 11 1989: The founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society (later renamed Prosvita) took Place in Kyiv. February 12 1943: The Soviet Army took Krasnodar, Shakhty, Krasnoarmeiskoe and Stavropol from the Germans. 1944: The USSR Verkhovna Rada adopted a law creating the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. February 13 1942: Forced resettlement of Ukrainians as Ostarbeiters for forced labor in Germany began. During the Nazi occupations two million Ukrainians were thus resettled. 1943: The capital of Hungary, Budapest, was freed from the Germans. February 14: The world marks St. Valentine's Day, the holiday of all lovers. 1992: Verkhovna Rada passed the Fundaments of Ukrainian Legislation on Culture. February 15 1922: The first session of the World Court opened in the Hague. 1989: Soviet troops completed withdrawal from Afghanistan, where 14,000 Soviet officers and men had perished during the nine year war. February 16 1918: The Act on the Establishment of the Lithuanian Republic was adopted in Vilnius. This date is now the national holiday of the Lithuanian Republic. February 17 1863: The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.

 

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