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The Soviet Union's Ukraine Show Trials

Wandering the Edge by Larysa Zariczniak

Sep 15, 202500:32:01History

Did you know the Soviet Union's first show trial was in Ukraine? It happened in 1930 in Kharkiv against the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine and resulted in the guilty sentence of 45 Ukrainian intellectuals. It became...

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