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EXPLAINER: 50 Years Ago – How Ukraine’s Modern National Resistance Crystallized

On Nov. 9, 1976, 10 Ukrainian dissidents founded the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, using the Helsinki Final Act as a legal weapon against Soviet repression. Despite swift KGB arrests, the group fused human rights with national rights, produced the programmatic Memorandum No. 5, and, with diaspora support in the West, broke Ukraine’s international isolation. 50 years on, its legacy endures: an…

EXPLAINER: 50 Years Ago – How Ukraine’s Modern National Resistance Crystallized

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