Article: Kharkiv and Ukraine through a young diasporan's eyes PART I: BACK TO

Yarema A. Bachynsky
Ukrainian Weekly, The
07-31-1994
Kharkiv and Ukraine through a young diasporan's eyes PART I: BACK TO THE. FATHERLAND

KHARKIV -- Ukraine's second city, founded as a Kozak fortress in the 17th century, capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic until 1934, fierce battleground during the second world war, world famous for its tractor plant, center of power for reactionary Russian communism in eastern Ukraine. All these descriptions fit this over 2 million strong metropolis. It is a city of stagnation and dynamism, of sullen "khokhol" resignation and angry Ukrainian national pride, of pining for a Soviet past and striving for a democratic future. Kharkiv is all ...

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