Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler's Ukrainian "liberation movement" might find easy conquests in Poland and Rumania, but undoubtedly it will have tough going in Russia. Not only has Dictator Stalin a better army than Poland or Rumania, but long ago he took pains to silence if not kill all Ukrainians inclined to demand "extra rights." As one of "Tsar" Vladimir's entourage last week pungently expressed it: "This is all very well, but what will Mr. Stalin...
...acorn from which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
...Chust, Ruthenia's capital, a German mission arrived recently to form a "Ukrainian Free Corps" on the order of the Austrian Free Corps before Fuhrer Hitler absorbed Austria, and the Sudeten Free Corps before the Sudetenland was "freed." The corps's job will doubtless be 1) to undermine the civil authority of Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union in Ukrainian districts, 2) to work up a separatist movement, 3) to create incidents which will eventually make "necessary" Ruthenia's-i.e., Nazi Germany's-intervention to restore "law and order," and liberate Ukrainian kinsfolk...
Meanwhile, all "stateless" Ukrainians in Germany were asked to register at a recently opened Ukrainian "confidential office." The number of Ukrainian broadcasts from German stations increased and throughout Ukrainian districts appeared new radio sets ostensibly supplied by Nazi agents. Ukrainian deputies to the Polish Parliament dared to ask for "self-government" for their districts...
...granary of Russia, the Ukraine has long attracted Adolf Hitler as the best potential bread-supplier to the Nazi Fatherland. The Ukrainian masses have also long rebelled against "foreign" rule. They do not like Dictator Stalin, King Carol II of Rumania or their Polish masters. Because they were under German domination for only the eight closing months of the World War, Nazis hope that they prefer German tutelage as the least of evils...