interests of all those who help you and are well-disposed to you and to
the liberation of your people.
Those who are guilty before the Ukrainian people and before the republic,
no matter what their nationality, shall suffer the severest punishment
according to law prevailing in the territory of the Ukrainian republic;
to the innocent, however, you must bring liberation from the hated
Bolshevist yoke.
The Republic's and my own cordial thanks to and high esteem for your
martial bravery, devotion, and self-sacrifice which your offer upon the
altar of the fatherland, while liberating our Ukraine and the
nationalities living there - including the Jews - from the Bolshevists.
May God help us in the great and sacred cause of liberating the nations
from the heavy yoke of the Bolshevists!
August 27, 1919
Commander-in-Chief: Petlura.
(Ukraina, September 2, 1919.)
F. Pigido (ed.), Material Concerning Ukrainian-Jewish Relations during
the Years of the Revolution (1917-1921): Collection of Documents and
Testimonies by Prominent Jewish Political Workers, The Ukrainian
Information Bureau, Munich, 1956, pp. 70-72.
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Arnold Margolin The Ukraine and the Policy of Entente 1921 Russian and Ukrainian pogroms compared
If the beginning of the demoralization of the Ukrainian army was at its tail,
by Denikin's army the poison of demoralization came from the head.
EXTRACTS
from the book by Arnold Margolin
"The Ukraine and the policy of the Entente"
(Memorandum by a Jew and a citizen).
Publisher C. Efron. Berlin, 1921. Chapter XXIV. Pages 310-315.
Pogroms of the period of the Directorate, and of Denikin's Army. Parallels.
- Nations and Governments.
I have before me the report on pogroms, prepared by the Relief Committee
for the Victims of Pogroms, at the Russian Red Cross in Kiev. It is
stated in the report that there were no pogroms during the rule of the
Central Council, or of Skoropadsky, or during the first two months of the
Directorate's rule. Pogroms began after defeats that had been inflicted
upon the troops of the Directorate by the Bolsheviks. The heavier the
defeats and the farther Petlura's army was compelled to retreat, the more
cruel was their vengeance upon the innocent Jewish population whom they
identified with Communists. The slogan: "down with Jews and Communists,"
or "all Jews are Communists" were raised throughout the Ukraine and
provoked pogroms everywhere.
This explanation of the origin of pogroms is quite identical with the
statement made in Temnytsky's and Vasylko's telegram of August 1, 1919.
In the course of centuries the entire population of Russia had been
listening to accusations by the government of Jews being responsible for
all the evils in the world. The ignorant masses believed even the
legends about the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews, while even
the "specialists" in this subject were declaring that Jews kill only