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Originally Posted by CyberSEO Ukraine was a part of Russian Empire for 100's of years, so it wasn't annexed by Soviet Union. It just became a part of Soviet Union as any other regions of Czarist Russia

That is correct. My maternal grandparents we from the Czarist Russia Ukraine. My grandfather was drafted for life into the Czar's Army, he was a blacksmith -- he deserted the Czar's army conscription for life and came to America with his wife. That was about 1895 and long before the Bolshevik revolution.