Zhirinovsky regrets that Galicia did not become a separate Soviet republic
Stalin should not have annexed Galicia to Ukraine. The leader of the LDPR, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, announced this today from the rostrum of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
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“What was the mistake? When we took away the ancestral lands of the Russian Empire, we should not have given them to Ukraine. We thought they would be kinder to us. It was necessary to create the 17th Soviet Republic of Galicia and strictly restore order there. So that neither Warsaw nor the Ukrainians will ever be tempted to restore order there. Pre-war mistakes are still affecting us,” Zhirinovsky said.
On September 28, 1939, in accordance with the Treaty of Friendship and Border between the USSR and Germany, Western Galicia was annexed to the General Government created by the Nazis on the territory of Poland, and Eastern Galicia and Western Volyn, after a referendum, were included in the Ukrainian SSR.
In the fall of 1944, according to an agreement between the USSR and Poland, voluntary-forced resettlement of ethnic Poles living there began from the territory of Galicia. The total number of Poles displaced to Poland from territories ceded to the USSR is estimated at more than 850 thousand people.
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