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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czecho...

Czechoslovakia was never in the USSR. It was Warsaw Pact. Same with Hungary.

The Warsaw Pact was the eastern bloc's answer to NATO. They were also in Comecon, their version of the EEC.

Not to be confused with Comicon.

Op is probably referring to the history of conflict between Ukraine and Russia specifically, for example when Ukraine lost its war of independence against the Red Army. Stalin purged Ukraine quite thoroughly then by starvation.

For sure Russia oppressed Ukraine. The Holodomor was genocide.

The building of the subway wasn’t done by an independent Ukraine though, it was done under the rule of the USSR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro

No, but they did everything else: Engineered famines (the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Holocaust), gulags, and mass executions (Khruschev's first major job, being Stalin's liquidator in Ukraine).