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Dictionary: Soviet Hippies

1 Bourgeois: of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes

2 L’viv Lviv is a city in western Ukraine, around 70 kilometers from the border with Poland.

3 Militia a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency.

4 Galicia a region in E central Europe: a former crown land of Austria, included in S Poland after World War I, and now partly in Ukraine.

5 barricades an improvised barrier erected across a street or other thoroughfare to prevent or delay the movement of opposing forces.

6 Overtly without concealment or secrecy; openly.

7 Russification is a form of cultural assimilation process during which non-Russian communities, voluntarily or not, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian one.

8 Guerrilla a member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.

9 Remnants a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.

10 Banderite A member of, or one who ascribes to the ideas of, the political movement of Stepan Bandera; more generally, a nationalist Ukrainian.

11 Collectivization was a policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into collective farms called “kolkhozes” as carried out by the Soviet government in the late 1920's - early 1930's.

12 Lychakivs’kyj Cemetery Larges and oldest cemetery in L’viv

13 Fascist is a follower of a political philosophy characterized by authoritarian views and a strong central government — and no tolerance for opposing opinions. Fascist traces to the Italian word

fascio, meaning "group, bundle." Under fascist rule, the emphasis is on the group — the nation — with few individual rights.

14 Drunkards a person who is habitually drunk.

15 Polytechnic an institution of higher education offering courses in many subjects, especially vocational or technical subjects.