October 15, 2020March 25, 2021John MacKailLeave a Comment on This is our twinned club. The dates tell their story. Formed in the heady rush of the Ukrainian independence movement. Ultimately crushed by Germans as they swept east, battered again as the now beaten Germans deployed a scorched earth policy. Hot on their heels were the jubilant Red Army come to “liberate” them. After the war was “won” there followed 45 years of increasingly pointless occupation. When the gates were pushed they opened,without from our twinned club on the river uze to Stalingrad is only 1200 miles,about the same as Birstall to Uzhgorod !qpp This is our twinned club. The dates tell their story. Formed in the heady rush of the Ukrainian independence movement. Ultimately crushed by Germans as they swept east, battered again as the now beaten Germans deployed a scorched earth policy. Hot on their heels were the jubilant Red Army come to “liberate” them. After the war was “won” there followed 45 years of increasingly pointless occupation. When the gates were pushed they opened,without from our twinned club on the river uze to Stalingrad is only 1200 miles,about the same as Birstall to Uzhgorod !qpp
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