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Ukraine The Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe. The Ukraine is richly endowed in natural resources The Ukraine has a strategic position at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. As a result Ukraine has been fought over and subjugated for centuries; its 20th-century struggle for liberty is not yet complete. A short-lived independence from Russia (1917-1920) was followed by brutal Soviet rule that engineered two artificial famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died, and World War II, in which German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 million more deaths. Although independence was attained in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, true freedom remains elusive as many of the former Soviet elite remain entrenched, stalling efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civic liberties. The climate is continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast;
precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser
in east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold
farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in
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