Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Musi waNovember 5, 1968, akazviuraya nekuzvipisa mumugwagwa mukuru weKyiv, Khreshchatyk, achipikisa kutonga kweSoviet kweUkraine, kurwisa russification pamwe nekupinda kweSoviet muCzechoslovakia
. Asati afa, Makukh akadanidzira kuti 'Rarama kwenguva refu Ukraine yakasununguka!' Musi wa6 Mbudzi 1968 hofisi yemuchuchisi weLeninsky District yeguta reKyiv yakatanga nyaya yemhosva kwaari nekuda kwekuzviuraya, mhedzisiro yacho isina kuzombozivikanwa.