Although information of their activities and victories is scanty. these leaders have kept the Ukrainian desire for independence burning brightly. Hostile acts of the Soviet dictators have been countered with rebellion and counterattack. For example. the Ukrainian political leaders. deported in vast numbers to the forced labor camps in Siberia. staged bloody rebellions that shook the Kremlin with its force in 1953. 1954. 1955. and again in 1956. When the Hungarian uprising took place. some Ukrainian freedom fighters came to their aid. Many gave their lives for the cause of freedom no matter how little chance they had to succeed against Soviet totalitarianism.
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