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Ukraine in World War II
- General GovernmentOn the 8th of October 1939, Adolf Hitler issued a decree that claimed the Polish government had completely collapsed. This document served as the legal basis…
- Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern GaliciaIn 1931, the Polish census recorded that Ukrainian language was spoken by 52% of inhabitants in Eastern Galicia and 68% in Volhynia.
- Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern BukovinaIn 1812, the Treaty of Bucharest transferred Bessarabia from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire. This region had been a vassal state of the Ottomans as…