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    <p>There is strong evidence for a renewed autonomy movement in
      Transcarpathia with its partly Rusyn population,<br>
      at the time of the decay of the Soviet Union in 1990.</p>
    <p>The center of this autonomy movement was Uzhgorod / Uzhhorod at
      the Slovakian border.<br>
      See for example <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://litopys.org.ua/rizne/magocie.htm">https://litopys.org.ua/rizne/magocie.htm</a></p>
    <p>While I have not (yet) found direct evidence of an official local
      time zone of CET during the period in question, I have found
      several quotes<br>
      that there exists a tradition for parts of the population to use
      'Hungarian time' in the region.</p>
    <p><b>This makes Shank's claim again more believable.</b></p>
    <p>Once Ukraine stabilized after gaining full independence, it
      blocked all such movements in its southwestern province.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03.12.19 12:11, Alois Treindl wrote:<br>
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      <p><tt>I also doubt the claim by Shanks that </tt><tt><span
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            float: none;">Zakarpattia Oblast, to which </span></tt><tt><br>
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            float: none;">Uzhgorod / Uzhhorod belongs, had Central
            European time between 1 July 1990 and 31 March 1991.</span></tt></p>
      <p><tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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            !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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              !important; float: none;">Zakarpattia Oblast</span> has
            borders with Slovakia (was Czechoslovakia still in 1990) and
            Hungary.<br>
            These countries were on Central European time (GMT +1h east)
            during that period.<br>
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            float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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              text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
              initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The
              town of </span></span></tt><tt><span style="color: rgb(0,
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            !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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              !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0,
                0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;
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                normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;
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                !important; float: none;">Uzhhorod is directly at the
                border to Slovakia.</span></span></span></tt><tt><br>
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            float: none;"></span></tt></p>
      <p><tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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            float: none;">Kiev, Ukraine's capital, was under GMT +3h
            east at that time.<br>
          </span></tt></p>
      <p><tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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            float: none;">Under which authority the more western </span></tt><tt><span
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            float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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              text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
              initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Zakarpattia
              Oblast would have followed its own time zone?<br>
              <br>
              I have put the question now into an Ukainian astrology
              forum, but my experiences with this kind of forum are <br>
              not the best - few people outside the small TZ community
              engage themselves with details of historical time zones.</span></span></tt></p>
      <p><tt><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
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            255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
            text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
            float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
              13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
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              text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
              initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The
              Ukrainian astrology website on which that forum runs uses
              the time zone of Kiev for </span></span></tt><tt><span
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            float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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                style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style:
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                    !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0,
                      0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
                      normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;
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                      text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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                      !important; float: none;">Zakarpattia Oblast,
                      during the period in question.</span></span></tt></span></span></span></tt></p>
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            none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;
            -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255,
            255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
            text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important;
            float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
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              text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
              initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span
                style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style:
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                font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
                letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent:
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                text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
                initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><tt><span
                    style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
                    font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
                    font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
                    letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start;
                    text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space:
                    normal; word-spacing: 0px;
                    -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color:
                    rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
                    text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
                    !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0,
                      0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-style: normal;
                      font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps:
                      normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal;
                      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
                      text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
                      word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
                      background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
                      text-decoration-style: initial;
                      text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
                      !important; float: none;">I am trying to find out
                      on which information that is based.<br>
                    </span></span></tt></span></span></span></tt></p>
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