Why Crane. About this Website

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Thank you for visiting my website. This site was created with the purpose to help you discover beautiful country of Ukraine. Why Crane anyway? Not just because...

Catherine II brought German Mennonites to Ukraine. A century later they had to immigrate...

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Mennonites are a group of Anabaptist Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Reformation. The name Mennonites is derived from the excommunicated Roman Catholic chaplain Menno Simons (1496–1561) from Friesland, part of the Holy Roman...

John Steinbeck describes post-WW2 Ukraine. (1947 Kyiv trip)

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Excerpts are from “A Russian Journal” written by John Steinbeck after his trip with a famous war photographer Robert Capa to the Soviet Union...

“The Russian is Asiatic, with no regard for human life, barbarian and chronic drunk”...

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"The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an...

Extra-realistic flag of Ukraine

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Britannica: More than a thousand years ago a powerful state, Kyv Rus, was founded in an area that is now part of Ukraine. National flags...

Mysterious Trypillia Culture in Ukraine was older than Egyptian and Sumerian ones. It constructed...

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In the 1890s, while excavating an Upper Paleolithic site in central Kyiv, Czech archaeologist Vikenty Khvoika discovered artifacts of a later civilization. The pieces of pottery...

Sharon Stone signals her support for Ukraine at Cannes, – Vogue

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She also used an appearance at a cocktail reception at the start of the week to signal her support for Ukraine – she opened...

Instagram star Ukrainian Cat Stepan raised $ 10 000 for other pets in Ukraine’s...

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Here is Stepan's Instagram handle for those who want to follow him and donate to the cause right meow!

Yuzhnoye SDO successfully tests new Ukrainian 122 mm Taifun-1 rocket

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" Under the technical guidance of Yuzhnoye SDO, two successful test firings of the Ukrainian 122 mm Taifun-1 rocket designed for the Grad multiple rocket...