Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has called on the nation to remember the residents forcibly evicted from the country’s western regions to Siberia under Stalin’s regime 70 years ago.
“Today is the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of the population from western Ukraine to Siberia and the northern regions of the former USSR, codenamed Zapad (“West”) operation. In just one day, over 76,000 people were forcibly displaced in order to weaken the Ukrainian liberation movement…,” Poroshenko wrote on Facebook.
