1934. Leonid Kravchuk was born

80 years ago, January 10, 1934, Leonid Makarovich Kravchuk, the first president of Ukraine, former second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, was born to ideology, was born. On December 1, 1991, he was elected President of Ukraine in the first direct presidential elections, gaining 61.6% of the vote. Its main opponent was the leader of the "People’s Rukh" Vyacheslav Chornovol. In 2001, on the 10th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of Ukraine, Kravchuk was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine with the award of the Order of the Power "For an outstanding personal contribution to the formation and development of an independent Ukrainian state, many years of active political and social activities." In 2010, he sharply condemned the activities of the Communist Party of Ukraine, calling her actions “inhuman”.