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 | | I have taken two regions for the purpose of comparison: Cherkasy oblast, where people experienced all the horrors of Soviet totalitarianism, and Rivne oblast, which, luckily, joined the “indissoluble union” only in the fall of 1939. |
 | | A look at Rivne oblast shows that its vital statistics, as represented by the dotted line in the graph, are quite stable: no major fluctuations are connected with 1933. |
 | | Almost devoid of collective farms, Rivne oblast was practically unaffected by the new Holodomor, yet its population increased on a lesser scale, not in the least part due to the deportation to Asia of the UPA fighters known as Banderivtsi [named after Stepan Bandera, the distinguished leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-OUN]. |
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