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Moscow.
Ukrainians made up the largest minority. From the mid-1960s some
members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia began to oppose russi?cation open-
ly. As a consequenceViacheslav ChornovilValentin Moroz and Ivan Dziu-
baamong otherswere arrested and spent years in camps for “nationalist
agitation.” The arrests did not stop the spread of the movementand even
the party hierarchy came to be infected. Petr Shelest lost his job as ?rst sec-
retary of the Ukrainian party organization in 1972for taking Ukrainian in-
terests too much to heart. The Ukrainians believedperhaps wronglythat
the Union exploited their native land and they got lesseconomically speak-
ingthan they gave.
No oneof courseat this time thought of independence. The nationalists
d [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]nded respect for the economic interests of the nationand above all
promotion of the national culture and language. They insisted that the re-
public give preference to Ukrainian language over Russian. Contrary to So-
viet expectationsthe use of the national languages actually increased rather
than decreased.
A History of the Soviet Union232
Aside from Ukrainethe Baltic statesand especially Lithuaniaconcerned
policy makers in Moscoyilai:
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