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A group of rebels participating in the Tatarbunary Uprising, 1924 The Tatarbunary Uprising (Romanian: Răscoala de la Tatarbunar) was a Bolshevik-inspired peasant revolt that took place on 15–18 September 1924, in and around the town of Tatarbunary (Tatar-Bunar or Tatarbunar) in Budjak (Bessarabia), then part of Greater Romania, now part of Odessa Oblast, Ukraine. It was led by a pro-Soviet revolutionary committee which called for the creation of a Moldavian Soviet Republic and an end to "Romanian occupation".
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Female members of Sydir Kovpak's partisan formation in Ukraine, c. 1940s
German soldiers at the "Cafe Kaukasus" at Kharkov, Ukraine, 1942.