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One of the few images of the Bolshevik participants in the Kiev Arsenal Uprising. (Lord of the Craft) On this day in 1918, Ukrainian Bolshevik workers picked up weapons and revolted at the Kiev Arsenal. Ukraine had finally declared its independence from Imperial Russia just four days earlier in the wake of Russia's October Revolution,…
The memorial at Drobitsky Yar. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1941, men of the German Wehrmacht (regular army) massacred 15,000 Jewish people in Drobitsky Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Although the circumstances of the massacre are not completely clear, the general historical consensus is that Wehrmacht units invading Ukraine (then…
An Orthodox priests hears confession as protesters and Berkut riot police face off. (source: Anthro Encyclopedia) On this day in 2013 the Euromaidan, or "European Square" protests began in Ukraine in response to President Viktor Yanukovych's postponement of an association deal with the European Union (EU). The protests, which took place largely in the central…
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