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After the Ukraine was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the late 18th century, successive Tsars repeatedly suppressed the nationalist natives. The Tsar's attempts to Russify Ukraine reached its zenith in 1876 when the Tsar issued the Ems Ukaz, which banned all publishing in Ukrainian. Ironically the Harvard building which houses the Ukrainian Institute was built in that year...
Many historians believe that Stalin engineered a famine in 1933 in an attempt to break the back-bone of the nationalist-minded Ukrainian peasantry, causing the death of seven million villagers. Despite a relatively normal harvest in Ukraine--considered the Soviet Union's bread-basket--Soviet officials ignored signs of mass starvation, scholars say, requiring nearly all foodstuffs to be exported outside of the republic...
...second-ranking official in the nationalist government, Botha implied that the presence of communist ideologues warrants and justifies the immediate sacrifice of the rights of democracy, freedom of the press, and habeus corpus of the majority of the people within that nation. But the foreign minister's fear of a communist conspiracy, of which he offered no proof other than the existence of a letter, does not lend credibility to his government's increasingly repressive, even totalitarian policies...
...first time that Taipei had taken part in direct talks with Peking on any subject since 1949, when the mainland came under Communist control. And to some observers it signaled an unprecedented flexibility on the part of the Nationalist Chinese government. Under the accord, a crew from C.A.A.C. flew the plane to Hong Kong and turned the craft over to Taiwan. That represented a major concession by Peking's negotiators, who had originally demanded that Taiwan send a delegation to the mainland to pick up the jet. Taiwan rejected the proposal outright for fear that it might be misread...
Freda Meissner-Blau, the candidate of the environmentalist Greens, won 5.5 percent, and Otto Scrinzi, a pan-German nationalist, received 1.2 percent...