<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <link rel=StyleSheet href="blood_ac.css" type="text/css"> <link rel=StyleSheet href="ukraine_ac.css" type="text/css"> <title>Price of Non Independence</title> </head> <body> <a name="pstop"></a><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/ukr_main_menu_e.lbi" --> <table align="center" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align=center height=20 nowrap> <a href="ukrnez.htm" class="ukrmenu1">&nbsp;Independence&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center height=20 nowrap> <a href="le_ind.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Comments&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="el_ind.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Elections&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukroly.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Olympics&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukrcur.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;History&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukrne.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;News Events&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukrfoot.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Football&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukrfdi.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;FDC&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukrpic.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Gallery&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="ukquiz.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Quiz&nbsp;</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td class = "bk3333cc" align=center nowrap> <a href="frame.htm" class="ukrmenu">&nbsp;Home</a> </td> <td align="left" class = "sepmenu"><img src="images/1.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td align=center nowrap> <a href="frameu.htm" class="ukrmenu2">&nbsp;YKP&nbsp;</a> </td> </tr> </table> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --><div id=div_headergap> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" align="center"> <tr> <td valign=top ><a href="ukrnez.htm"><img src="images/back_page3a.png" width="30" height="32" alt="" border=0></a></td> <td align="left" ><img src="images/1.gif" width="5" height="1" border="0" alt=""> </td> <td> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" height="40" width="645" lass=eventheaderp2> <tr> <td align="center" lass="titlea"><img src="images/poi_ts_y.png" width="645" height="40" border="0" alt="" align="top" class=rounded-corners1></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" class="bkffffffrc1" width="645"> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> <tr> <td idth="12%" align="right" valign="middle" class="bkffffff"> <img src="images/shev1a.jpg" height="250" width="250" alt="Shevchenko" style="display: block;" border=0> </td> <td width="58%" align="left" valign="center" class="ldetail"> The face of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's greatest poet, shows the price paid for desiring Ukrainian independence from the Russian empire. The portrait was taken after his return from a 10 year sentence in Siberia by the order of Czar Nicholas 1. Taras was released in 1857. He died four years later in 1861. Taras was born on March 9, 1814. </td> <td class=pad2d></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> </table> <div id=div_gap> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" align="center"> <tr> <td> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" height="40" width="645" lass=eventheaderp2> <tr> <td align="center" lass="titlea"><img src="images/poi_hol_1_y.png" width="645" height="40" border="0" alt="" align="top" class=rounded-corners1></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" class="bkffffffrc1" width="645"> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> <tr > <td idth="12%" align="right" valign="middle"> <img src="images/ukrhol1a.png" height="250" width="250" alt="Ukrainian Holocaust" style="display: block;" border=0> </td> <td width="58%" align="left" valign="center" class="ldetail"> In 1932-33 over seven million Ukrainians perished in a forced famine by the Kremlin. It was meant to force collectivization and destroy any independent national consciousness. It turned Ukraine into a mass graveyard. Before Ukraine declared independence this crime against humanity was never officially recognized. The genocide was denied, its perpetrators never punished. </td> <td class=pad2d></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> </table> <div id=div_gap> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" align="center"> <tr> <td> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" height="40" width="645" lass=eventheaderp2> <tr> <td align="center" lass="titlea"><img src="images/poi_ww2_1_y.png" width="645" height="40" border="0" alt="" align="top" class=rounded-corners1></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" class="bkffffffrc1" width="645"> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> <tr> <td idth="12%" align="right" valign="middle"> <img src="images/ww21a.png" height="250" width="250" alt="WW2" style="display: block;" border=0> </td> <td width="58%" align="left" valign="center" class="ldetail"> During the Nazi occupation Ukraine suffered a population loss between 7 and 10 million people. This was the highest in Europe. Also, over two million were sent to Germany to work as slave labor. When the Nazis had been defeated the victors met in Yalta. Ukraine however still remained under a dictatorship from Moscow.</td> <td colspan="3" class=pad2d></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> </table> <div id=div_gap> </div> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" align="center"> <tr> <td> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" height="40" width="645" lass=eventheaderp2> <tr> <td align="center" lass="titlea"><img src="images/poi_chor_1_y.png" width="645" height="40" border="0" alt="" align="top" class=rounded-corners1></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" class="bkffffffrc1" width="645"> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> <tr> <td idth="12%" align="right" valign="middle"> <img src="images/chor1a.png" height="250" width="250" alt="Chornobyl" style="display: block;" border=0> </td> <td width="58%" align="left" valign="center" class="ldetail"> The Chornobyl explosion occurred during the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev. Through Perestroika and Glasnost he attempted to keep the crumpling empire intact and ruled from the Kremlin. &nbsp;The Chornobyl explosion could have in a few seconds done what many had tried for centuries. Eliminate Ukraine. &nbsp; Instead the catastrophe was a catalyst for the declaration of independence by Ukraine on August 24, 1991. </td> <td class=pad2d></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3" class=pad2ha></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <div id=div_gap> </div> <table align="center" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="580"> <tr> <td align="center" class="tddiv"><a href="ukrblood.htm#pstop" class="link"><img src="images/top0_normal.gif" width="65" height="18" border="0" alt="" style="display: block;"></a> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>