16.03.2009, 01:39
Kriegt die Ukraine ein (weiteres) Separatisten-Problem:
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Zitat:A glimpse of daylight
Ruthenia was once independent, for one day. Now Ruthenes are getting restive
FOR connoisseurs of obscurity, the Republic of Carpatho-Ruthenia takes some beating. Seventy years ago, on March 15th, it enjoyed its sole day of independence—declared in the morning amid the Nazis’ dismemberment of the then Czechoslovakia, snuffed out in the evening by an invasion from neighbouring Hungary. Its leader, Avhustyn [Augustin] Voloshyn, died in a Soviet jail in 1945; so did many others. Before the world had even noticed its existence, independent Ruthenia disappeared into first the Nazi, then the Soviet empires.