By 1921 the country was overrun by the Russian Communists and the Ukraine again became a subjugated nation. It was one of the first and earliest victims of Soviet imperialism and has paid a tremendous toll in suffering and destruction. The Ukraines national churches were destroyed. the country suffered terrible famines. mass murders. purges. and deportations. Nevertheless. the spiritual and moral resources of the Ukrainian people have not been exterminated. nor has its indomitable desire for national freedom been extinguished after all these years of enslavement and suffering. The Ukrainian nation numbers some 44 million people and constitutes the largest nonRussian group behind the Iron Curtain in Europe.
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