Ukrainians were subject to one of the worst genocides in history.
Ten million Ukrainians were killed when they were denied food between 1932-1933. The act, which is thought to be genocide on the part of the Soviet Union, is known as the Holodomor. Entire villages where Ukrainians had died were lived in by ethnic Russians in order to create ethnic homogeneity in the Soviet Union.
Ukrainian leaders protected thousands of Jews during WWII.
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for 45 years, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013 for saving thousands of Jews during WWII. He and other civic and Church leaders hid Jews in their homes during the Nazi invasion. A common criticism of Ukrainians is anti-Semitism, but figures like Metropolitan Sheptytsky, prove these accusations wrong.
Ukraine is home to 45.49 million people.
According to the World Bank, Ukraine was home to 45.49 million people in 2013 – that’s a little less than the population of the entire American West Coast at the last federal census. Ukraine fell victim to massive population loss after independence in 1991, as more than 7 million Ukrainians left their homes to find work in the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East.
Ten million Ukrainians were killed when they were denied food between 1932-1933. The act, which is thought to be genocide on the part of the Soviet Union, is known as the Holodomor. Entire villages where Ukrainians had died were lived in by ethnic Russians in order to create ethnic homogeneity in the Soviet Union.
Ukrainian leaders protected thousands of Jews during WWII.
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church for 45 years, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League in 2013 for saving thousands of Jews during WWII. He and other civic and Church leaders hid Jews in their homes during the Nazi invasion. A common criticism of Ukrainians is anti-Semitism, but figures like Metropolitan Sheptytsky, prove these accusations wrong.
- Right now, the president is Petro Poroshenko
- Ukraine is starting to become a democracy or a "maturing" democracy.
- Ukraine was declared an independent state on August 24, 1991. That was only 26 years ago!
Ukraine is home to 45.49 million people.
According to the World Bank, Ukraine was home to 45.49 million people in 2013 – that’s a little less than the population of the entire American West Coast at the last federal census. Ukraine fell victim to massive population loss after independence in 1991, as more than 7 million Ukrainians left their homes to find work in the United States, Western Europe, and the Middle East.