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[COMMUNISTS IN CARPATHIAN UKRAINE] Kalendaryk na rik - god 1945 [i.e. Calendar for 1945]

Item #2805

Rakhiv: Drukarnia M. Kohn, [1945]. 16 pp. 15x11 cm. In original printed wrappers. Small tear of spine, minor tears of outer edge of pages, otherwise very good.

Edited by M.D. Gryniuk.

This small edition was published after the annexation of Transcarpathia by the Red Army. The covers are in Ukrainian and Russian. The calendar includes feast days of saints from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christian traditions. The back cover lists some secular observances marked in the USSR: International Women’s Day, the May Day, the death of Lenin, the Aviation Day, as well as November 26 – the day when Transcarpathia separated from Czechoslovakia and joined the USSR.

An autonomous Subcarpathian Rus' was founded as a part of the Second Czechoslovak Republic in 1938. On December 30, 1938 the regional government issued a provisional decree changing the region’s name to Carpathian Ukraine. On March 15, 1939, the Hungarian Army regular troops invaded Carpatho-Ukraine and annexed the state.

In late 1944, the Red Army troops invaded Transcarpathia liberating it from the Nazi control. On October 16, 1944, the town of Rakhiv was occupied by units of the Red Army. In 1945, Transcarpathia officially became part of the Ukrainian SSR. A puppet ‘National Committee of Transcarpatho-Ukraine’ (under the protection of the Red Army) proclaimed the "will of Ukrainian people" to separate from Czechoslovakia and to join the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic on November 26. This very date is included into the list of observances.

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Price: $850.00