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The Socialist-Revolutionary Party was founded.
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Russia entered World War I in August 1914, after promising support to its Balkan ally Serbia against Austria-Hungary.
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Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending its participation in World War I,
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1932 Stalin prepares for the Famine-Genocide setting unrealistic grain procurements for Ukraine. Famine in Ukraine. 40% of harvest in Ukraine to be handed over to the government. Little is left for the farmers. Farmers live off their depleted reserves and small plots and farm animals.
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Widespread starvation in Ukraine.
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1943-44
Red Army fights to regain Ukraine Emmigration -
A reactor Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, sending a radioactive plume across Europe.
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1000 years of Christianity celebrated.
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The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan and the Berlin Wall is destroyed
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On January 21, 1990, over 300,000 Ukrainians organised a human chain for Ukrainian independence between Kiev and Lviv, in memory of the 1919 unification of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
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The first relatively free parliamentary election held in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Ukraine became independent again when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
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Stalin deports 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Siberia and Central Asia following collaberation with nazis.
