providing support to separatists in Donbass), both acts of treason against the Ukrainian state. [56] Secondly, the dissolution of the Soviet Union directly led to the reestablishment of class antagonism in society. [citation needed] In the summer of 2018, the parties website was closed by the police "due to the demonstration of communist symbols". [40] Formally along with the Communist Party, it is also a member of the Left Opposition Association. [16] In reaction, the Verkhovna Rada legalized the establishment of communist parties two months later. The first crimes committed by the Bolsheviks in Ukraine took place in January 1918 when the Red Army occupied some areas of Central Ukraine for the first time. On little islands of Soviet persons, The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. [38] However, the Communist Party was not banned because it had filed an appeal against the Justice Ministry's decree on its activity termination. But the Communist party was officially prohibited only in 2015 as part of the “decommunisation laws”. The Soviet Army was an instrument of Russification. Altogether, between the fall of 1939 and June 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, the Soviet secret police deported close to 1.25 million people from Ukraine. Thus, in 1978 there were 28 Union-republican ministries and 16 state committees, and only 6 republican ministries. [38], The party decided to take part in the October 2015 local elections as part of the umbrella party Left Opposition [ru; zh]. [76] Independent candidate Oksana Kaletnyk joined the Communist parliamentary faction on 12 December 2012. It is … Except for some units of the Red Cossacks, regular army units in Ukraine were of mixed national composition, and used Russian as their main language. In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election, Symonenko initially again ran as a candidate of his party, but he withdrew from the race on 16 May. In 1957, regional economic councils were introduced in addition to the republican economic councils to strengthen republican autonomy. [36], The October 2014 parliamentary election further marginalized the party as it won no constituency seats and came 1,12% short of reaching the 5% election threshold. [14], The KPU formally considers itself the direct descendant of the Communist Party of Ukraine, a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) which was founded on 5 July 1918, in Moscow. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine. [55] The Soviet Union is barely criticized and controversial events such as the Great Purge and Holodomor are not mentioned in the party press. The policy of Ukrainisation was tactical and temporary. 85% of the soldiers were Russian, 9% Ukrainian, 6% Polish, Byelorussians, Jews, Germans and others. First, the retreating Soviet troops followed a scorched-earth policy, removing industrial equipment, livestock, suppliers, and people from areas they were about to leave. At that point the Bolsheviks could only keep hold of the capital for a few weeks. But, at the end of the 1920s, the Communist Party returned to the methods of “War Communism.” NEP was renounced. In the parliamentary election on 29 March 1998, the party gained 24.65%[71] of the vote and 123 seats, becoming the largest party in Parliament. [16] On 19 June 1993, the 1st Congress of the newly founded KPU was convened. 277 pp. [56] This antagonism led to the exploitation of the proletariat by "a comprador bourgeoisie [...] behind which stands world imperialism headed by the USA". 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