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working people;
3) 8-hour working day was introduced;
4) The state control of industrial production
was established;
5) To conclude peace as soon as possible;
6) The death penalty was abolished, political
prisoners were given an amnesty;
7) Common democratic freedoms were
consolidated: freedom of speech, liberty of
the press, faith, meetings, unions, strikes,
personal and residence immunity, opportunity
to use local languages in all state
establishments;
8) Russians, Jews and Poles were granted the
right to have national and personal autonomy
and free development of other nations living
in Ukraine;
9) save from famine not only Ukrainian
people, but also the front and great parts of
the Russian republic, etc
December, 4 The ultimatum of the Council of People’s
(17) Commissars headed by V. Lenin. The CPC
1917 sent “The Manifesto to Ukrainian People”
with categorical demands to C.C. The
ultimatum consisted of 4 demands towards
UPR:
1) To give the disorganization of the front
expressed in withdrawal and redeployment of
units, breaking the front without approval of
Russia;
2) Stop disarmament of Bolshevist units in
Ukraine;
3) Not to allow units of Don Cossacks

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