Editing Ukraine (section)

==== The Period of the Russian Empire and Communist Rule ====
During World War I, Ukraine declared its independence as the "People's Republic of Ukraine," but opposition forces did not allow this situation to survive for long. On Ukrainian soil, a fierce struggle took place between supporters of an independent Ukraine and its opponents. At that time, Jews suffered greatly from pogroms by gangs.

In 5679 (1919), Stalin conceived the "Five-Year Plan," during which agricultural work was centered around cooperative farms belonging to the Soviet government. The plan dispossessed millions of people from their lands and caused some of the worst years of famine in the world. During the famine years, about 10,000,000 people died (one-third of the country's population).