--- title: Ukraine in the Second World War — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Ukraine in the Second World War», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them, and the Soviet Union took Galicia and Volhynia from Poland; the teac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Ukraine in the Second World War # Ukraine in the Second World War Lesson 47 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/0/) — In 1939 Hitler and Stalin secretly split eastern Europe between them, and the Soviet Union took Galicia and Volhynia from Poland; the teacher used the old Soviet word «reunification», but Danylo's grandmother remembered arrests and deportations (people forced from their homes and sent far away), so for many families it was an occupation. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/1/) — From 1941 to 1944 Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine; millions of soldiers and civilians died, cities lay in ruins, and over two million people were taken to Germany as forced labourers, called Ostarbeiter, «eastern workers». - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/2/) — At Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews in two days in September 1941, and tens of thousands more people were killed there later; it is first of all a place of the Holocaust, the Nazi murder of Europe's Jews, and today people come there quietly to remember. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/4/) — The wise lesson: say «among the hardest-hit» instead of ranking suffering, honour the brave by being honest about the others, and remember that one people's pain, like the Crimean Tatars' deportation, helps us understand another's. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/5/) — In September 1939, after the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact divided eastern Europe, the Soviet Union took eastern Poland, including Galicia and Volhynia, and deportations and arrests followed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/6/) — Nazi Germany occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1944; millions of civilians and soldiers died, and over two million people were taken to Germany for forced labour as «Ostarbeiter». - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/7/) — At Babyn Yar in Kyiv, on 29–30 September 1941, Nazi forces murdered about 33,771 Jews; in the following years tens of thousands more were killed there, including Roma, prisoners of war and Ukrainian nationalists. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/8/) — Millions of Ukrainians fought in the Red Army; several fronts were named «Ukrainian fronts» after where they fought, and the victory came from all the Soviet peoples together with the Allies. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/9/) — The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) fought for independence against Soviet forces and at times against the Germans; in 1943–1944 UPA units carried out mass killings of Polish civilians in Volhynia, and Ukrainian and Polish historians work on these facts together. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/10/) — In May 1944 Stalin's regime deported the whole Crimean Tatar people to Central Asia; many died on the way and in the first years, and Ukraine recognises it as genocide. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/12/) — Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, has recognised over 2,600 Ukrainians as Righteous Among the Nations, non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews; Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's network hid Jewish children, while some other people collaborated (helped the Nazis) and most were too afraid to act. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/14/) — In 1945 Soviet Ukraine became one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations, with its own seat, though its foreign policy was controlled from Moscow. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/47-ukraine-in-the-second-world-war/15/) — Soviet Ukraine suffered three famines: 1921–1923, 1932–1933 (the Holodomor) and 1946–1947, the last after drought and war damage, made worse by grain exports. - ← previous: [The struggle of 1917–21 and the Holodomor](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/46-the-struggle-of-1917-21-and-the-holodomor/) - next →: [Chornobyl and independence in 1991](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/48-chornobyl-and-independence-in-1991/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)