As a result. the Ukraine was incorporated as a Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union as though to obliterate from history the previous existence of the Ukraine as a nation. Subsequent Soviet policy. designed to extinguish Ukrainian cultural and spiritual independence. has exacted a heavy toll in human lives and misery by denying national identity to the Ukrainian people. Resistance movements have been countered with Soviet authorized deportation. starvation. and execution. The Ukraine is one of the richest of the captive nations of the U.S.S.R. The Ukrainian territory. covering 232.046 square miles. is a land possessing tremendous agricultural and industrial resources and boasting a cultural background that is centuries old.
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