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Mass forced deportation of the "unreliable" population and the families of the repressed (hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Poles) to remote areas (special settlements in Siberia and Kazakhstan)^[4].

Immediately after the start of the putsch, GKChP representatives announced the introduction of a state of emergency and the forced shutdown of most independent mass media^[3].

Forcible herding of deputies of the Supreme Council of Crimea into the seized building for a coerced vote and the appointment of S. Aksyonov, a prime minister loyal to the Kremlin^[4].

Covert support and sponsorship by the empire of reactionary organizations, such as the Union of the Russian People, which propagated extreme Russian chauvinism and aggression^[16].

Seizure of Sloviansk by the armed group of I. Strelkov and the formation of the separatist DPR/LPR under the supervision of Russian political technologists (A. Borodai) to destabilize the region from within^[4].

The Bolsheviks' provocation of an uprising of workers at the "Arsenal" plant in Kyiv itself to draw away the reserves of the Ukrainian authorities at the very moment of the Red troops' offensive^[4].

Destruction of the first political organization of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, known as the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, following a denunciation by the student Aleksei Petrov to the secret police^[13].

Creation of an atmosphere of total paralyzing fear in society through the fabrication of cases (for example, the "Union for the Liberation of Ukraine") and the staging of public show trials^[10].

A covert operation by Muscovite emissaries disguised as monks, aimed at destroying ancient documents of the 11th–17th centuries. The fire destroyed "the written memory of the independent Ukrainian political and spiritual life of the Lavra"^[9].

Attempted physical elimination of democratic opposition leader V. Yushchenko at the height of the election campaign by dioxin poisoning, which resulted in severe disfigurement of the candidate's face^[4].

Mass dispossession and forced deportation of hundreds of thousands of resisting peasants (the so-called "kurkuls") to remote special settlements in Siberia and the North^[10].

Systematic cyberattacks on energy companies and municipal district heating enterprises amid the full-scale war, aimed at cutting off electricity and heat supplies to Ukrainian civilian consumers^[32][33].
Systematic massed strikes with cruise missiles and kamikaze drones (Shahed) against generation facilities (the Zmiiv CHP plant, Kharkiv CHP-5, the Trypillia thermal power plant, the Dnipro Hydroelectric Station) and transformer substations to cause blackouts^[31].

Imposition of corrupt gas supply schemes through an intermediary company (RosUkrEnergo), controlled by S. Mogilevich, a crime boss linked to the Russian security services, in order to buy up the loyalty of the Ukrainian elite^[4].

Moscow's seizure of direct control over the punitive apparatus through the decision to liquidate the independent All-Ukrainian Cheka (VUChK) in August 1919 and the appointment of its own special commissar, Ya. Peters^[10].

Luring the kish otaman Osyp Hladky over to the side of the Russian Empire in 1828, during the Russo-Turkish war^[2].

Arrest and lifelong exile of the Sich's top leadership. The last kish otaman, Petro Kalnyshevsky, was sent to solitary confinement in the Solovetsky Monastery^[20].

Seeking to weaken the Hetmanate from within and prevent it from breaking its vassalage, Moscow began artificially fomenting civil war. The Tsardom generously sponsored and armed the internal opposition against the lawful government, provoking the period of the bloody Ruin: "The uprising of Pushkar and Barabash"^[15].

Conducting the secret mass "national operations" of the NKVD (Polish, German, Greek, Bulgarian, and others) for the physical extermination of members of ethnic minorities^[24].

Fabricated repressions against figures of the Ukrainian and Jewish intelligentsia, culminating in the execution of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the "Doctors' Plot"^[4].

Systematic, demonstrative violence and intimidation by the forces of the Cheka (the All-Ukrainian Cheka, VUChK) to create an atmosphere of total fear and to coerce the peasantry into surrendering food^[29].

Targeted physical annihilation (mass executions) of the national cultural elite — a tragedy that entered history as the «Executed Renaissance». «Stalin's telegram on ending Ukrainization and destroying the majority of Ukrainian writers» ^[9]. These repressions destroyed an entire generation of outstanding Ukrainian writers, poets, and intellectuals^[4].

Organization of enforced disappearances of key functionaries of the movement (the abduction of M. Boichyshyn), followed by cynical sabotage of the investigation by structures controlled by the authorities^[1].

Harsh forcible suppression of any protests and peasant unrest, mass executions of those deemed undesirable^[23].

Purge of civil communities: a ban on the activities of Ukrainian enlightenment hromadas on the Right Bank after the suppression of the uprising^[19].

Regular military operations by the NKVD and MGB to sweep western Ukrainian villages with the aim of suppressing UPA resistance^[4].

Deliberately starving millions of Ukrainian peasants to death as a direct result of Moscow's state policy^[10].

Mass arrests of members of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and fabrication of criminal cases, leading to the prolonged isolation and deaths of prominent dissidents (including Vasyl Stus) in special-regime camps^[4].

Arrest of the acting hetman and the starshyna in St. Petersburg for attempting to defend autonomous rights through petitions. The physical elimination of the leader through his death in the Peter and Paul Fortress became an instrument for the final suppression of elite resistance^[18].

Targeted arrests of the new Ukrainian intelligentsia, dissidents, and protest participants (including after the premiere of "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors") to suppress the nascent resistance^[26].

Systematic destruction of the Cossack starshyna who had supported Mazepa, through torture and executions, to eliminate the political leadership^[14].

Mass deportations of the Ukrainian population during the occupation: more than 12 thousand people were forcibly expelled from Galicia on charges of political unreliability^[8].