Stalin and Khrushchev unleased bloody persecutions and reprisals against the Ukrainian people in the late 1940s. Relentless and severe persecutions of Ukrainians continued after the death of Stalin and after the ouster of Khrushchev from the top leadership in the Kremlin. BrezhnevKosygin leadership is bent on keeping the Soviet Russian empire intact by persecutions and deportations of Ukrainian youth. students. scientists. and Ukrainian intellectuals. Recently the international press has been providing a vast amount of documentation of the suppression of Ukrainian culture. Briefly. the Kremlin rule in Ukraine can be described as follows: Exploitation of Ukraines economic resources for the benefit of Moscow and its imperialistic ventures in Asia. Middle East. Africa. and Latin America. genocide and systematic deportation of Ukrainians to central Asia. arrest and trials of Ukrainian patriots including Ukrainian Communists defending freedom of their country. Persecutions of all religions in Ukraine and enforced Russification aiming at the cultural and linguistic genocide of the Ukrainian people. All the available evidence of the Westtern observers shows that everincreasing tempo of repression has failed to intimidate the Ukrainian people. therefore. the Russian leadership in the Kremlin took brutal measures against liberal movement in Czechoslovakia. since Kremlin leaders were convinced the liberal ideas of Czechoslovakia would help Ukrainian liberals and other captive nations.
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