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... that Joseph Stalin deported the Balkar people from the Kabardino-Balkar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Nazi Germany ?
... that the Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Soviet Union , which turned it into the Altai Republic ?
... that the Udmurt Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Udmurt Republic in 1991?
... that tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium June 22 , 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory " due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR ?
... that because Leonid Brezhnev had more than 200 decorations, it was decided to break the Soviet custom of featuring only one decoration on cushions during his funeral
... that the February 9, 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine?
... that in the Ukrainian-Soviet War Russian Empire , and then the Soviet Union ?
... that the strength of the Ukrainian People's Army war with Soviet Russia ?
... that the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division miners , from the Ukrainian Donets Basin ?
... that the massacre in Vinnytsia Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
... that members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia ?
... that the Poltava Bandurist Capella , directed by Hnat Khotkevych Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America ?
... that the proposals for a new Crimean flag collapse of the Soviet Union included a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top and a blue-white-red tricolor design, which was officially adopted in 1999?
... that collective leadership Soviet ideologists during the rules of Georgy Malenkov , Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev ?
... that the 1973 Soviet economic reform Alexei Kosygin , the Premier of the Soviet Union , tried to reduce the powers of the central Ministries ?
... that Valentin Pavlov Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and de facto Cabinet of Ministers , was involved in the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev ?
