Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians, the Ukrainian campaign was a pursuit of the advancing Germans. Roman Messaggero's War Correspondent Lino Pellegrini described the difficulties of keeping up with the swift ally. "The enemy mud," he said, "is implacable to those who seek to advance at any cost, and only tractors can get over it with relative success. The distance of a few kilometers seems unobtainable. . . . Often German comrades helped my car along with their energetic arms...
...General Count Michael Grabbe, a former Russian officer, also leader of the Cossacks-in-exile. So far as specifically Ukrainian - rather than all-Russian - puppetry was concerned, unemployed stooges included...
...Pavlo Petrovich Skoropadsky, 67, of Berlin, an amiable old schemer who was Germany's Ukrainian puppet in 1918 (TIME, June 30). Since his brief puppet leadership ended with Germany's World War I defeat he has lived on a German pension. His chief sponsor today is said to be Hermann Göring. Finagling old Pavlo Skoropadsky is not too popular with the Nazis' Russian-Ukrainian expert Alfred Rosenberg, a smart man, nor with many Ukrainians who think him stupid...
...Audrey Melnyk, 50, who was born in the Galician Ukraine, rose to be an Austrian Army Colonel. Today he heads the Organization of the Ukrainian Nationalists in Berlin-a Fascist movement composed mostly of Galician Ukrainians. He is hand in glove with the Gestapo...
...Alexander Sevriuk, 49, Alfred Rosenberg's personal adviser on Ukrainian matters. As a boy of 13 he fought against the Tsarists in the abortive Revolution of 1905. Later he fled to France. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Alexander Sevriuk surprised many friends by giving up his Russian revolutionary sympathies, moving to Berlin in body and spirit...