Word: rada
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiraly of Hungary finished second and Edi Rada of Austria, the European figure skating champion, third in the final standings...
Troubles multiplied. The "elected" Rada became unruly, and it became necessary to set up a frank puppetry under a Hetman named Paul Skoropadsky. Marshal von Eichhorn was assassinated by a Ukrainian terrorist. The peasant workers of the Ukraine became infected with Soviet ideology; riots broke out. Disorderly crowds of the Austrian troops who were supposed to garrison the area started west for home in trains and on foot, selling their arms to the local populace. The German soldiers caught Bolshevism, and it spread like an epidemic...