An oral history project in the Donbass This article presents the indings of a small oral history project carried out during the years 2001-2010 in the Eastern ukrainian Donbass region. the Donbass, located in today's Eastern ukraine, was until the 1960s the main coal region of the Soviet union. 1 under Stalin's forced industrialisation of the 1930s, the region experienced an enormous economic development and population growth, and became a leading industrial centre and "showcase region of socialism." At the end of the 1930s,
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