Vitali Doroshenko was born on October 21, 1941, in Odessa,
Ukrainian SSR, USSR.
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The scene of the Odessa Steps (the Primorsky Stairs in Odessa)
involves the massacre of civilian demonstrators by troops of the
Tzar, which did not actually take place. The famous steps were
renamed by the Soviets as "the Potemkin Stairs" but changed back to
their earlier name after the Ukraine became autonomous again after
the breakup of the USSR.