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in capturing Ukraine, but he could come to regret it. While he's looking to the past, he might linger over the experience of an earlier potentate, Josef Stalin, who annexed western Ukraine from Poland. As Szporluk points out, Stalin thought he was being clever, but he ended up doubling his problems: He bro

ms to be approaching an end," Jim Hoagland, the chief foreign correspondent of The Washington Post, wrote at the time. It was a common theme. When the Soviet Union unraveled a few years later, the largest of the 14 republics liberated from Russian dominion was Ukraine. While savoring their independence, many U

d the 80th anniversary of the Welles Declaration," which "condemned the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Soviet leader Josef Stalin." Greece Vows To Do "Whatever Necessary" In Dispute With Turkey. The AP (7/23, Gatopoulos, Fraser) reports Greece warned Thursday it "will do 'what

in opposing any Russian attempts to rewrite history after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had consented to their 1940 annexation by the Soviet Union." In a joint statement with the foreign ministers of the three Baltic countries, Secretary of State Pompeo said, "We stand firmly against any attem

. The years that followed would be even more traumatic: in the late 192os and early 1930s, Ukraine suffered heavily under the rule of Soviet despot Josef Stalin. A vast segment of Ukraine's rural population was displaced and dispossessed by Stalin's aggressive collectivization policies. A man-made famine in

a organs, meanwhile, used this history to label the new government in Kiev as one riding on a wave of "neo- Nazism." After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union claimed Lviv and its surrounding lands in Ukraine's west. The Crimean peninsula, whose population was majority Russian (after the mass deportation

d the 80th anniversary of the Welles Declaration," which "condemned the occupation and annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by Soviet leader Josef Stalin." Greece Vows To Do "Whatever Necessary" In Dispute With Turkey. The AP (7/23, Gatopoulos, Fraser) reports Greece warned Thursday it "will do 'what

in opposing any Russian attempts to rewrite history after President Vladimir Putin said the Baltic states had consented to their 1940 annexation by the Soviet Union." In a joint statement with the foreign ministers of the three Baltic countries, Secretary of State Pompeo said, "We stand EFTA01658153 firmly ag