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The fortieth anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II was celebrated in the USSR from May 3 to May 9, 1985. The anniversary of what has come to be called the Great Patriotic War by the USSR was variously described in the West as an “institutionalized cult”1 and as an occasion that would genuinely foster popular emotion among Soviet citizens.2 For Western Ukrainians and Western Belorussians, however, the period of the war was some eighteen months longer than the duration of the German-Soviet war, for it began with the division of Poland in September, 1939. From the perspective of these two western borderland Soviet republics, the war began not with the attack of June 22, 1941, but with a Soviet expansion westward that was to continue in the postwar period.
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3 World War II and Ukraine
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Marples, D.R. (1992). World War II and Ukraine. In: Stalinism in Ukraine in the 1940s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376076_3
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