UN General Assembly
1960

62. The economy of the Ukraine surpasses the economy, I would say, of several such countries as Canada. According to the level of industrial and agricultural development, the Ukraine is among the most advanced countries of the world. We have surpassed the United States in the per caput production of steel, pig iron, and iron ore, as well as of some other industrial and agricultural produce. The country which in the past was illiterate has become a republic of highly developed culture, of advanced science and technology. The number of students in the Ukrainian schools of higher education is equal to that in such schools in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Sweden and Austria taken together, and ten times more than that in such schools in Canada. A whole army of scientists, who have made a great contribution to the solving of important scientific problems in the creation of artificial earth satellites, spaceships, etc., are working in 500 scientific research establishments. Is it not clear that an oppressed nation cannot achieve such full prosperity of its land as has been achieved by the people of the Soviet Ukraine?