Ukrainian Workers' Party of Romania

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Ukrainian Workers' Party of Romania
Vyzvolennia
Партія українських працюючих Румунії
Визволення
SecretaryIvan Stasiuk
Founded1929 (1929)
Dissolved1934 (1934)
NewspaperBorets
IdeologyUkrainian minority rights
Leninism
Left-wing nationalism
Political positionLeft-wing to Far-left
National affiliationWorker-Peasant Bloc

The Ukrainian Workers' Party of Romania (Ukrainian: Партія українських працюючих Румунії,Romanian: Partidul muncitorilor ucrainieni din România), also known as Vyzvolennia (Ukrainian: Визволення, "Liberation"; Romanian: Vîzvolenia), was a Romanian left-wing political organisation, active primarily in northern Bukovina, which militated for workers' and minority rights, and whose stated ultimate goal was uniting those areas of Romania with Ukrainian majority with the neighbouring Soviet Ukraine. Created in 1929 by members of the underground and a major part of the Ukrainian section of the , Vyzvolennia was associated throughout its existence with the Worker-Peasant Bloc, a front organisation for the then-illegal Communist Party of Romania. In spite of harassment from the Romanian authorities, the organisation was able to obtain several electoral gains in the late 1920s and early 1930s, including electing one of its members to the Parliament of Romania on the Bloc's list. Crackdown followed soon afterwards, with the party banned and most of its leadership imprisoned. Driven underground, the organisation ultimately disbanded in 1934.

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