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The Liberation of the Ukrainian and Belorussian
Lands from the Yoke of the Polish Pans

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and the Unification of Brotherly Peoples
into a Single Family

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A Historical Newsreel.
Kiev Film Studio, 1940

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The River Bug, wafted by the sorrow of centuries,
sung in Russian songs,

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In the minds of the people, a river as deep
as the sea and too wide to cross for ages.

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The river divided the Ukrainian
people, it was a border

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The river is filled with steel
stakes as far as the eye can see

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А Polish Maginot Line.
True, it should be much wider

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But that didn't happen.
The Pans stole all the money.

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Once Western Ukraine …

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now a colony of Polish imperialism.

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Cut up into narrow furrows by the
downtrodden, ragged, ignorant Polish slaves

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88% of the land in the hands of the landowners,
and church, and 12% with the peasants.

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Burdensome taxes and
numerous fines and levys

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60% of their childen sick
with dystentery and tuberculosis.