Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. 
==History==
===20th Century===
After the Russian Revolution, Ukrainians desired to be independent; previously being a part of the Russian Empire. Soon enough, they became a part of a new empire - the Soviet empire, becoming the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The Ukrainian entry into the Soviet Union was a painful one. Ukrainians were russified, and Ukrainian poets, historians, and linguists were repressed. Under the Soviet boot, Ukraine also suffered one of it's worst disasters, still remembered to this day - the Holodomor. A terrifying famine which swept the Ukrainian nation that lasted from 1932 to 1933. Holodomor was a man-made famine caused by Stalin as a punishment for the Ukrainians who rebelled against his collectivization policies.
thumb|250px|Aftermath of the Chernobyl diseasterDuring the Second World War, Ukraine was occupied by Nazi Germany, and Ukrainian nationalists collaborated with Nazis against Soviet Union hoping to reestablish Ukrainian independence or to get autonomy under the authority of Germany.
In 1986, yet another catastrophe struck the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, as the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded as a result of an improper test, causing what became known as the Chernobyl Diseaster. The accident contaminated large portions of northern Ukraine and southern Belarus with uranium, plutonium, and radioactive isotopes, rendering the area around Chernobyl, including the city of Pripyat, uninhabitable. Lower levels of contamination from the explosion were detected over all of Europe except for the Iberian Peninsula. Tall tales told by men at night told of the explosion allegedly turning men and animals of Chernobyl and Pripyat into bloodthirsty mutants; little did they know that Soviet mutants did exist, but had nothing to do with Chernobyl.
After the Third World War and the invasion of Moscow by NATO forces, Ukraine declared independence, finally free from the russification and maltreatment from the Kremlin.
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