Καταληκτική Συνάντηση του Θερινού Σχολείου
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A Russian Invasion
The most crucial national question facing the October Revolution was that of Ukraine, a vast territory colonized by Catherine the Great. Russian feudal lords imposed serfdom, brutally converting Ukrainian peasants into serfs and locking Ukraine in the Prison of the Peoples. Ukrainian nationalism was to miss a whole ethnogenetic epoch and remain unhatched.
The Bolsheviks’ palinodes and retractions about which Lenin himself felt "strongly guilty before the workers of Russia, for not having intervened energetically and decisively enough" against the resurgent Great-Russian chauvinism of the rising Stalinist bureaucracy and their ultimate failure to respond adequately fueled the civil war, contributed to containing the revolution within the Tsarist borders, too far away from Europe and especially Germany, and even enabled the king of Romania to bloodily crash the Hungarian Soviets. The famine during Stalin’s forced collectivization, and the continuous national oppression afterward, could only add an anti-soviet and anti-communist character to the Ukrainians’ hate towards their oppressors.
