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Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images Two cities, the capital Kiev, and Sevastopol in Crimea, treated separately because it housed an underground nuclear submarine base, were designated "cities with special status." [39], During the post-war years, Ukraine's industrial productivity doubled its pre-war level. Also, an estimated 3.9million Ukrainians were evacuated to the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the war, and 2.2million Ukrainians were sent to forced labour camps by the Germans. In its capacity as a member of the UN, the Ukrainian SSR was an elected member of the United Nations Security Council in 19481949 and 19841985. At the beginning of the 20th century, territories inhabited by Ukrainians covered nearly 700,000 square kilometers with a population of over 30 million. Just days before it is to be signed, Yanukovych announces that he will refuse to sign an association agreement with the European Union to bring Ukraine into a free trade agreement. In its Declaration on State Sovereignty (16 July 1990) the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR stated its intention to nationalise the army in Ukraine. The most common administrative division was the oblast (province), of which there were 25 upon the republic's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. [62][need quotation to verify] Khrushchev tried to improve the agricultural situation in the Soviet Union by expanding the total crop size for instance, in the Ukrainian SSR alone "the amount of land planted with corn grew by 600 percent". Numerous more or less socialist-oriented factions participated in the formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic among which were Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, Socialists-Revolutionaries, and many others. The Borotbysty reached a deal with the Bolsheviks in March 1920 which effectively saw them join the CP(B)U (Communist Party of Ukraine). The Ukrainian national movement included two main political parties, namely the Social-Democrats and the Social-Revolutionaries. Many wave the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag that had been banned under Soviet rule. But this time they partially changed theirtactics. Upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Ukrainian SSR emerged as the present-day independent state of Ukraine, although the Soviet constitution remained in use throughout the country until the adoption of the Ukrainian constitution in June 1996.[13]. Yekelchyk, Serhy. The cease-fire soon breaks, and fighting continues into the new year. The name has been used in a variety of ways since the twelfth century. For this reasoneconomy and terror were so tightly linked in the USSR. Altogether, between the fall of 1939 and June 1941, when Germany attacked the USSR, the Soviet secret police deported close to 1.25 million people from Ukraine. [35], In October 1964, Khrushchev was deposed by a joint Central Committee and Politburo plenum and succeeded by another collective leadership, this time led by Leonid Brezhnev, born in Ukraine, as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.