For more than a century of Ukrainian settlement in the Far East, the territory we know today as Zelenyi Klyn has gone by several different names. “Green Ukraine,” “New Ukraine,” “Far Eastern Ukraine,” and “Zakytayshchyna” are not different regions, but different names for the same phenomenon: the mass settlement of Ukrainians in the southern Far East and the formation there of a stable national community that numbered hundreds of thousands of people and had its own self-gover

In their final statements, many defendants addressed not the judges, but their own people, as if knowing that their true court and verdict lay there.

«Along the road on the snow lay the bodies of killed people. Pools of blood blackened. When I asked who these people were and when they were beaten, Kostin answered angrily: «We started hitting the bastards, and now they are lying here, enough for us, we just started».»