On what was already a warm Wednesday evening, Oelwein’s American Legion Ross Reid Post 9 held its annual Flag Day flag retirement ceremony, during which an estimated 500 to 600
In December 1991, 92% of Ukrainians voted for independence from the former Soviet Union, with a voter turnout of 84%. While Moscow saw Ukraine and other former Soviet States as remaining under its sphere of influence, from the outset Ukraine’s people embraced democracy and its government generally oriented itself toward the West rather than Moscow.