Symon Petliura Quotes
It is a pity that pogroms take place, but they uphold the morale of the army
Officially and personally he was against anti-Semitism. See {617892} but his army, made up mostly of ignorant, illiterate, rural peasants had many ingrown attitudes.
Symon Petliura, 1879-1926 Russian Ukrainian Revolutionary General, Commander & Chief of all Red Troops in the Ukraine, Remark to some of his staff
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The Army consisted of uneducated rural peasants. As much a Petliura tried to educate his troops, there were still extensive pogroms against Ukrainian Jews. Petliura did not enforce his order rigorously. See {617891}.
After the Russian Revolution he fought both the Whites and the Reds. He finally lost to the Reds and was banished. Both the Red and White armies went on pogroms and attacked Jews. The Whites were the worst and did so with the complicity of their officers by and large. The Reds, under Symon Petliura issued orders {617892} against pogroms but didn’t enforce it much. Makhno’s troops had some minor anti-Semitic activity but he disciplined them harshly. Specifically he had them shot. None the less, the few incidents were publicized by both the Reds and the Whites who were themselves engaged in the worst anti-Semitic behavior used their exaggeration as propaganda against Makhno and his army.
This quotation is typical of the anti-Semitic view of the World that is held by many Islamic fundamentalists. Saudi Arabia promulgates this type of venom throughout the Muslim World. This, along with diatribes like it, are recorded in video and audio tape, and with the permission of the Saudi Arabian government if not with government funds.
Vladimir Lenin. Despite Lenin’s abhorrence of anti-Semitism, there were any other Russians for whom it was normal. After Lenin’s death, Stalin and his henchmen used anti-Semitism to divert attention from the Communist Party’s failure to meet its economic and other goals.
He thought that the Israeli policy of dealing with Arab terrorism was too weak. His view was that the same kind of terror practiced by some Arab terrorist groups, without regard to the lives of innocent civilians, should be adopted by Israel. His view was that since Israel was accused of terrorism when it had measured, pinpoint targeting of terrorists, especially when there was unintended collateral damage, Israel might as well adopt real terrorism that would be much more effective by having the entire Arab population in fear of their life rather than just being inconvenienced or even humiliated. He violated Israeli law and was even jailed for making terrorism plans.
Armenian dissidents in Turkey formed military units like Hinchak which during the First World War, attacked unarmed Turkish Muslim Villages behind the front lines. The object of the Armenians was to have turkey lose the war and obtain their own ethnic state afterwards. The atrocities committed by the Armenians were unfortunately matched by the Turks in what is now referred to as the “Armenian Genocide”. The hatred still prevails – see {588211}.
The irony was that Breen was in charge of the Motion Picture censorship at a time when he personally could block any motion picture from being exhibited by withholding the Hollywood Production Seal of Approval. He was not only a virulent anti-Semitic but prohibited things like scenes with a double bed rather than twin beds for married couples.
Zangwill had been asked to be part of a team to assesses the accusations of pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine.
- Born: May 22, 1879
- Died: May 25, 1926
- Nationality: Ukrainian
- Profession: Politician Statesman
Symon Vasylyovych Petliura was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic during Ukraine's short-lived sovereignty in 1918–1921, leading Ukraine's struggle for independence following the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917.
