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political organization. By that act the
monopoly of the CPU power was destroyed.
During 1990-1991 nearly 20 oppositional to
CPU parties appeared.
March, 15 For the first time during the Soviet period on
1990 the official building (the city hall of Stryi) a
blue-and-yellow flag was raised.
March-May The elections to the Supreme Council of
1990 Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and
local Councils. The elections were conducted
on the alternative basis, it was a considerable
victory of democratic forces, which managed
to ignore the communist Law about elections.
For 450 mandates to the Supreme Council
there were about 3 thousand candidates, that
is 6-7 people for one mandate. Despite the
fact that elections took place in the conditions
of a single-party system and the CPSU
monopoly of mass media, the Democratic
block gained considerable success: out of 442
elected deputies to the Supreme Council, 111
got its support. The block won in five oblasts:
Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil’, Volyn’ and
Kyiv. The CPSU’s monopoly of power
shattered.
April, 3 The blue-and-yellow flag was raised on the
1990 city hall of Lviv.
April, 15 The blue-and-yellow flag was raised on the
1990 city hall of Ivano-Frankivsk.
April, 29 Nearly 500 delegates of the Ukrainian
1990 Helsinki Union announced about the self-
dissolution of the union and establishment on
its basis of the Ukrainian Republican Party,

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