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[Taras Kuzio <t.kuzio@utoronto.ca>]

RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 6, No. 178, Part II, 20 September 2002



UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP PAYS TRIBUTE TO SOVIET PARTISANS. President
Leonid Kuchma, Premier Anatoliy Kinakh, Verkhovna Rada deputy speaker
Hennadiy Vasilyev, and other officials on 20 September honored the
Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine during the Nazi occupation
(1941-44) by laying flowers on the graves of two partisan commanders,
Sydir Kovpak (1887-1967) and Oleksiy Fedorov (1901-89), UNIAN
reported. Both commanders have been given the status of legendary
heroes in the Soviet historiography. Later the same day, Kuchma
awarded medals to a group of former partisans. In keeping with a June
presidential decree, Ukraine is to mark for the first time the Day of
Partisan Glory on 22 September. There are currently 4.57 million
people in Ukraine with the status of war veteran. JM


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