Sakko i Vantsetti explained

Sakko i Vantsetti
Native Name:Сакко і Ванцетті
Native Name Lang:uk
Settlement Type:Village
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1923/1924
Unit Pref:Metric
Population Total:3
Population As Of:2001 census
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:EET
Utc Offset:+2
Timezone Dst:EEST
Utc Offset Dst:+3
Pushpin Map:Ukraine Donetsk Oblast#Ukraine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Sakko I Vantsetti
Coordinates:48.7461°N 38.0317°W
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:84530
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:+380 6274
Elevation M:77
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Oblast
Subdivision Type2:Raion
Subdivision Name2: Bakhmut Raion
Subdivision Type3:Hromada
Subdivision Name3:Soledar urban hromada
Pushpin Relief:y

Sakko i Vantsetti (Ukrainian: Са́кко і Ванце́тті; Russian: link=no|Са́кко и Ванце́тти) is a village in Bakhmut Raion (district) in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. It is part of Soledar urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.[1]

History

Sakko i Vantsetti was originally created as a commune in the Soviet Union in 1923–1924. It was closely connected to nearby Vasiukivka.[2] It was named after the Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were controversially convicted in 1921 of murdering a paymaster and a security guard at a shoe factory in the United States, executed in 1927 and rehabilitated in 1977 by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis.[3] Soviet propaganda celebrated Sacco and Vanzetti as unjustly accused proletarians and revolutionaries.[4]

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 1, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed his Wagner Group paramilitary fighters had captured Sakko i Vantsetti, posting a photograph purporting to show four of his soldiers posing in front of what they called "the only surviving house" in the village.[5] By the middle of May 2023, Russian forces were claimed to have retreated from the village following local Ukrainian counterattacks.

Demographics

The 1989 Census in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union recorded a total population of 19 in Sakko i Vantsetti, 12 men and 7 women.[6] The population declined by the time of the first independent Ukrainian Census of 2001, which recorded 3 inhabitants in the village.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Сакко і Ванцетті - Донецька область . 2023-12-25 . decentralization.gov.ua.
  2. Encyclopedia: Васюківка, Артемівський район, Донецька область. . uk.
  3. "Proclamation by the Governor" (1977), pp. 797–799; also included in Young and Kaiser, pp. 3–4, and Tropp, pp. 182–184.
  4. Web site: Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото). February 1, 2023. https://archive.today/20230201214642/https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto. February 1, 2023. uk. Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo).
  5. Web site: Населення — 3 особи: Пригожин похвалився "взяттям" села на Донеччині (фото). February 1, 2023. https://archive.today/20230201214642/https://focus.ua/uk/voennye-novosti/547991-naselenie-3-cheloveka-prigozhin-pohvastalsya-vzyatiem-sela-v-doneckoy-oblasti-foto. February 1, 2023. uk. Population — 3 people: Prigozhin boasted of "capturing" a hamlet in Donetsk region (photo).
  6. Web site: 19A0501_061_014. Number of actual and permanent population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. February 1, 2023.
  7. Web site: 19A0501_07_014. Number of actual population in rural areas, Donetska oblast (1,2,3,4), s. SAKKO I VANTSETTI. State Statistics Service of Ukraine. February 1, 2023.