Ukrainian History

4/ This was not a policy failure.
This was not “collectivization gone wrong.”
It was mass murder.
By law.
Millions of Ukrainians died.
And for decades, the world looked away.
Never forget the Holodomor. Never forgive.

3/ Meanwhile, the USSR exported millions of tons of grain.
There was enough food to feed the country. It was a choice.
Piles of wheat sat rotting at train stations.
Ukraine starved not because of drought or war, but because of Stalin.

2/ Peasants were barred from buying bread.
Forbidden to leave their villages.
Anyone caught hiding food faced raids, arrest, or death.
Whole villages were blacklisted.
“Not meeting quotas” meant all food was confiscated.
There was no escape.

1/4 On August 7, 1932, the USSR passed the “Five Ears of Grain” law.
Its purpose? To criminalize hunger.
Steal a handful of grain - get executed or sent to the gulag for 10 years.
Even starving children were punished.
This law helped trigger the Holodomor: a genocide by famine.

2/ Despite 28,000 volunteers answering the call, Austria allowed only 2,500 to enlist. The USS fought at Makivka, Bolekhiv, and later in Ukraine & Bukovyna.

Their legacy? Courage, discipline, and a bridge to the 1917–21 Ukrainian Revolution.

1/ On August 6, 1914, the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS) were formed in Lviv, the first national Ukrainian military unit since Mazepa’s army was crushed at Poltava in 1709.

Formed at the start of WWI, the USS symbolized the revival of Ukrainian military tradition under Austrian rule.

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2/ In Ukraine alone, 198,918 were sentenced and over 120,000 executed. Cultural elites were destroyed: Zerov, Kurbas, Kulish, Pidmohylnyi.

In Sandarmokh, 287 Ukrainians were shot in just one week in 1937. The goal was clear: erase Ukraine’s spirit.

We remember.

1/ August 5, 1937 is the day the Great Terror began.

Order No. 00447 of the NKVD launched the bloodiest campaign of political repression in the USSR. Millions were targeted as “anti-Soviet elements,” and extrajudicial killings began on a mass scale.

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Треті роковини масового вбивства українських військовополонених в Оленівці.

Цього року вперше на державному рівні ми можемо вшанувати пам’ять усіх, хто загинув тієї страшної ночі. Це не просто дата в календарі. Це глибока рана в серці кожного, хто пам’ятає. 1/3

2/ Some POWs tried to save each other. Many of the wounded could have survived, but russia deliberately stalled help to maximize death.

Even in captivity, Ukrainians held onto dignity and hope.
We remember those who died for Ukraine - who didn’t live to see victory, but brought it closer.

1/ On July 28, Ukraine remembers fallen soldiers, volunteers, and civilians tortured or killed in captivity.
One of the darkest crimes: the Olenivka terrorist attack on July 29, 2022, when russia murdered 53 Azovstal defenders and wounded over 130 more in a penal colony near Volnovakha.

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The Cossacks stormed Kafa, seized the citadel, and liberated thousands of Christian slaves. They threw away part of the loot to make room for freed captives on their boats — fulfilling the vow they made before the campaign.

3/ At night on July 22, 4,000 Cossacks approached the city walls. Turkish-speaking Cossacks distracted the guards, pretending to be Ottoman reinforcements headed to Persia. At the same time, others scaled the fortress walls and opened the gates.

2/ Sahaidachnyy used a clever trick: part of the Cossacks returned to the Sich with booty to mislead the Ottomans. Meanwhile, the core force hid near Ochakiv, waiting for the right moment to strike.

Then, they quietly sailed to Kafa (now Feodosia, Crimea).

1/ In July 1616, 6,000 Cossacks on 120+ "seagulls" (chaikas) set sail from the Dnipro. Near the Dnipro-Bug Estuary, they clashed with and defeated a squadron of Ottoman galleys, capturing half of them.

But that was only the beginning.

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On July 20, 1993, the UN Security Council officially stated that the resolution adopted by the Russian State Duma on Sevastopol’s status as a “Russian city” had no legal force.
UN made it clear: Sevastopol is Ukrainian. Crimea is Ukraine.

1/ Iryna Danilovych is being tortured in a russian prison.
Her crime? Being a nurse, a journalist, and telling the truth in occupied Crimea.
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7/7 The Polubotkivtsi weren’t rebels.
They were early prophets of freedom.
Their uprising wasn't madness, it was clarity.
In 1917, they saw what many refused to:
Ukraine would never be free under russia.
And they died proving it.

6/7 Ironically, days later, the Rada recognized the Polubotko Regiment as legitimate.
But it was too late.
They were sent to the Romanian front.
By early 1918, out of ~2,500 men, only five survived.
Their rebellion was buried in blood.

5/7 But the Central Rada refused to support them.
It feared war with russia more than it believed in immediate independence.
And so, Ukrainians were ordered to suppress Ukrainians.
The Bohdan Khmelnytsky Regiment crushed the uprising.

4/7 They stormed Kyiv:
⚔️ Seized police HQ, the arsenal, the commandant's office
⚔️ Declared resistance to “russians and renegades”
⚔️ Demanded full self-determination
All under the influence of Mykola Mikhnovsky, one of the fiercest voices for Ukrainian independence.

3/7 Tensions exploded after the Central Rada signed the Second Universal, deferring full sovereignty to a future russian assembly.
To the Polubotkivtsi, this was betrayal.
So they acted.
They armed themselves and declared Ukraine’s right to exist.