Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could admire their mutual skill at political maneuver and their long, hard way up to power. Brezhnev's triumph springs from a mixture of perseverance, hard work and calculation -plus an ample measure of good luck. The child of Russian working-class parents, he was born in the Ukrainian town now known as Dnieprodzerzhinsk. He had the right proletarian qualifications for Soviet success, but his early career was not singularly promising. After graduating from a trade school in Kursk, he held a series of unspectacular jobs: land surveyor, factory worker, school director...
Most of their writings, although addressed and submitted to the appropriate official agencies. Odajnyk said, went unanswered and unpublished. Instead, they circulated in handwritten and typed copies--samizdat--and were eventually reprinted in the Ukrainian Herald, an underground publication...
...January 1972 arrests were the second wave of arrests to sweep the Ukraine. In 1965, 30 Ukrainian intellectuals were secretly arrested...
...arrests were the result of the subsequent protest movement of individual Ukrainian dissidents. Odajnyk said. "What the 19 individuals were demanding was the internal implementation of the human and civic liberties guaranteed them by the Soviet constitution," Odajnyk said...
...What all these men have in common is an interest in the national equality and preservation of the Ukrainian culture. Their struggle is in terms of human rights, and it is only in terms of human rights that the national question has come to the surface...