Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ukrainian Defiance. More significant than any of the synod's actions was the result of a mail ballot by bishops round the world. It handed a thumping defeat to the proposed text of a church "constitution," a preamble to the new code of canon law. The document, known as the Lex Fundamentalis, had been the target of a sustained assault by progressives because of its emphasis on authoritarian aspects of the church (TIME...
...This is religious racism!" Malik shouted. "Religious fascism!" Tekoah, trembling with rage, stepped to the rostrum. Jews, he said, indeed seemed to have been chosen-"chosen to suffer." In a telling swipe at his Bolshevik adversary, he noted that Zionists had been battling imperialism "long before the Russian and Ukrainian people were on the maps of the world...
...against Russians living in exile and working for the overthrow of the Moscow regime. The last known case was the 1959 murder, with a special cyanide pellet fired from a pistol, of Ukrainian Exile Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich...
...stupefying contrasts, an earthy and unschooled Ukrainian peasant who came to wield power undreamt of by the czars. He was a custodian of the nuclear peace, yet he frequently rattled the Soviet saber, once bellowing that Communism would "bury" America. He served the party and the government with an iron hand, and in the 1930s helped send thousands to slave labor camps. Despite that, he is remembered as the crucial transitional figure who led the Soviet Union from an evil era of Stalinist tyranny toward a more moderate form of Communism. Near the end of his life, in the controversial...
...Russian Orthodox Church to have them deconsecrated because I thought people might feel a little strange wearing them." To play it safe with both God and woman, she has agreed to hand over her favorite piece, an 18th century black brocade deacon's robe, to Manhattan's Ukrainian Institute. Explains Jenny Bell: "I gave away my prize piece for absolution...