Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Adolf Hitler, the greatest Aggrandizer of the Reich since Frederick the Great, seized and occupied all but the Eastern Carpatho-Ukrainian tip of the 20-year-old Republic of Czecho-Slovakia. To the worldwide man in the street, and even the supposedly more knowing man in the stock exchange, it was Adolf Hitler's most sudden, most shocking surprise...
...fire a gun for the rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere...
BRATISLAVA -- Slovak military planes bombarded Hungarian troops near the Slovak towns of Trebischov, Michalovce and Sobrance near the Hungarian-Carpatho-Ukrainian borders today, official communiques declared...
...rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...
...recent discernible signs of separatist feeling have come from the Soviet Ukraine. Stalinist purges seem to have taken no more lives in the Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...