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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

19 June, 2001 - 00:00

June 19: 1925. The world’s first exhibition dedicated to world spaces opened in Kyiv.

1996. An agreement was signed giving Ukraine a second loan for macrofinancial aid from the European Union.

June 20: 1919. A military delegation of the UNR signed a temporary agreement in Lviv with the Poles to suspend military actions and establishing a demarcation line (the Delwig line) between the belligerents.

1972. The CPSU Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers ratified a decision on completing the transition to universal secondary education and on the development of the secondary schools.

June 21: 1919. The Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decree including the (nonexistent) Ukrainian Red Army in a single Red Army of Soviet Republics.

1961. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet created a medal For the Defense of Kyiv.

June 22: 1941. Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union.

1942. A soccer match was held in Kyiv between the German Luftwaffe team and Kyiv Dynamo (the so-called death match), with Dynamo winning 5 to 3.

June 23: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars ratified a decree to nationalize Kyiv City Museum and the Khanenko and Hansen museum collections.

1990. The settling of the first village in the Crimea by returning Crimean Tatars began.

June 24: 1934. The supreme state and Party organs of the Ukrainian SSR moved from Kharkiv to Kyiv.

1945. A victory parade was held in the Red Square.

June 25: 1941. The Southern Front was created, and Soviet troops abandoned Lutsk.

1992. The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Church Council ratified a decision on uniting the Ukrainian Orthodox and Autocephalous Churches into a single Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.

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