Ukraine After World War II - THE COLD WAR

The Cold War in Ukraine followed right after the Second World War that had left Ukraine in ruïns. A total of 28 thousand villages and 714 cities and towns were destroyed and as the nazis retreated, many agricultural and industrial sites were systematically laid to waste. Seven million Ukrainians are believed to have died during the Second World War. And then in 1953 Soviet dictator Stalin died. His successor was Nikita Khrushchev who kicked off a proces of destalinization. This era of liberalisation is also known as the Thaw. In 1954, Crimean Oblast was transferred to the Ukrainian SSR. The Thaw came to an end when Leonid Brezhnev ousted Khruschev in 1964. Brezhnev died in 1982, was succeeded by Yuri Andropov, who died shortly after, who was succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko, who ruled for little more than a year. Chernenko was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. On the 26th of April 1986 the nucleair reactor of Chernobyl exploded which was the world's worst nucleair reactor accident. Back to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. His liberal policies led to a coup attempt by hardline communists in august 1991 which failed. Ukraine proclaimed independence shortly after which was made official after a referendum in December. The Soviet Union officially disolved a few weeks later.


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Recorded in August 2019 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.


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