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Chernivtsi was under the control of the Soviet Union from 1940 to 1941, after which Romania recovered the city, and then again from 1944 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union, after which it became part of independent Ukraine. Chernivtsi is viewed as one of Western Ukraine's main cultural centers.
As a Soviet quasi-state, the Ukrainian SSR became a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 alongside the Byelorussian SSR, in spite of the fact that they were also legally represented by the Soviet Union in foreign affairs.
Chernivtsi, city, southwestern Ukraine, situated on the upper Prut River in the Carpathian foothills. The first documentary reference to Chernivtsi dates from about 1408, when it was a town in Moldavia and the chief centre of the area known as Bukovina.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 13, 2010 · It demonstrates that it is, on the contrary, the continuity between Soviet and post-Soviet eras that defines today’s dominant culture and state ideology in Ukraine and particularly in its borderlands.
- Svetlana Frunchak
- 2010
A communist state proclaimed by the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets in Kharkiv on 24–25 December 1917 and established through armed aggression against the Ukrainian National Republic by Soviet Russia and local Bolshevik forces in 1917–20 (see Ukrainian-Soviet War, 1917–21 ).
89 Researchers generally agree that the official Soviet memory of Chernivtsi was exclusive, overshadowing the memory of the local “Others,” primarily Jews, elevating the city’s Ukrainian and Russian memory on a pedestal to construct the Ukrainian Soviet identity in the city.
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Russian: Верховный Совет Украинской ССР, Verkhovnyy Sovet Ukrainskoy SSR.) was the supreme soviet (main legislative institution) and the highest organ of state power of Ukraine when it was known as the Ukrainian SSR, one of the union republics of the Soviet Union.
