Aside from the insurgency in the western borderland, Soviet authorities faced the huge task of restoring Soviet order and the economy in Ukraine after the war. The task was made even more difficult by the imposition of a delivery quota of 7.2 million tons of grain for 1946.

Was it, as was described at the time and for decades thereafter, a “gift” to Ukraine? If so, what motivated such generosity? After all, Crimea, the rugged peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, had not become territorially contiguous with Ukraine all of a sudden.

Fedor Abramov, Two Winters and Three Summers. 1968 . Having winnowed the grain with a wooden shovel, Il’ia raked it into a pile and swept around with a twig broom, picked every little grain out of the cracks between the floor boards, and then took a large birch basket from the wall.

Our Ukrainian People’s State must be cleared of the violent intruders sent from Petrograd, who trample the rights of the Ukrainian Republic. The inestimably difficult war, begun by the bourgeois government, has greatly wearied our People; it has already …

The murder of Volodarskii, the murder of Uritskii, the attempt to murder and the wounding of the President of the Council of People’s Commissars, Vladimir Il’ich Lenin, the mass shooting of tens of thousands of our comrades in Finland, in Ukraine and, finally on the Don, and in Czechoslavia [sic] the constant discovery of plots in the rear ...

Each of them had fallen into disfavor with Stalin at one time or another since the end of the Second World War. Now they were faced with the awesome task of leading the country in his absence. In the weeks that followed, Beria emerged as the one who was most anxious to depart from previous policies.

The bodies of Pavlik and his younger brother were found in a forest a few months after the arrest of their father. Whether their relatives had murdered them remains unclear. Finally, Pavlik was not and had never been a Pioneer.

Love and Romance in War; The Nazi Tide Stops; New National Anthem; Orthodox Patriarch Appointed; Partisans in the Forest; The Strange Alliance; The Vlasov Movement; Wartime Evacuation; Women in War Films; ... 1940, and its Presidium issued “The Decree concerning the frontiers between the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldavian SSR”, on November 4 ...

No Peace and No War. Revolutionary War or German Peace. Resolutions for Peace and War. The Socialist Fatherland is in Danger! Resolutions on Peace. Related Texts. Decree on Peace. Soldiers Urged to Negotiate with the Enemy. To the Toiling Masses of the World. Publication of the Secret Treaties. Support of World Revolution. Invitation to the Allies

The Belorussian and Ukrainian village in Western Belorussia and the Western Ukraine was being strongly Polonized by means of Polish colonization; the Ukrainian village in Northern Bukovina and the Moldavian and Ukrainian village in Bessarabia were Rumanified.