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| rdfs:label | - Soviet annexation of the western Ukrainian territories
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| rdfs:comment | - On the basis of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR), the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, capturing the eastern regions of Poland (Kresy), with Galicia and Volhynia, facing little Polish opposition and occupying the principal city of the ethnic region Western Ukraine, Lviv (), on September 22 of that year. On June 26, 1940 Moscow issued an ultimatum to the kingdom of Romania demanding ceding of the territories in the region of northern Bukovina (where Ukrainians were the ethnic majority), which was occupied by the Red Army on August 2 of that year. As a result of these annexations the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic gained of territory and increased its population by over 7 million people.
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| abstract | - On the basis of a secret clause of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (USSR), the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, capturing the eastern regions of Poland (Kresy), with Galicia and Volhynia, facing little Polish opposition and occupying the principal city of the ethnic region Western Ukraine, Lviv (), on September 22 of that year. On June 26, 1940 Moscow issued an ultimatum to the kingdom of Romania demanding ceding of the territories in the region of northern Bukovina (where Ukrainians were the ethnic majority), which was occupied by the Red Army on August 2 of that year. As a result of these annexations the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic gained of territory and increased its population by over 7 million people.
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