Symon Petliura Quotes
It is time for you to understand that the peaceful Jewish population, their children and women the same as ourselves have been oppressed and deprived of national freedom. They can not be alienated from us, they have of old been always with us and they have shared with us their joys and sorrows. The gallant army which brings brotherhood, equality, and freedom to all peoples of the Ukraine should not be lending an ear to various adventurers and provocateurs who long for human blood. Likewise, the Army should not be a party to bringing a hard lot on the Jews. Whoever is guilty of permitting such a heavy crime is a traitor and enemy of the country and must be thrust out of human society.
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}.
Symon Petliura,1879-1926, Russian Ukrainian Revolutionary General, Commander & Chief of all Red Troops in the Ukraine, Army Order No. 131, August 26, 1919
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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.
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.
This document was placed into the Congressional Record of October 1945.
At a Conservative party caucus, there was opposition to Mulroney's policy of allowing homosexuals to serve in the Canadian armed forces.
Even some of the Muslim countries of the OIC were embarrassed by the blatantly anti-Semitic speech of the host country prime minister. He parroted the discredited canard of the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
She was a brilliant woman who was well ahead of her time in many respects. But her rigid adherence to socialism and communism distorted her view of a number of things. This was one. Pogroms were occasions where the Czarist Russian Cossacks or other gangs of hooligans were “allowed” and often encouraged to attack Jewish farms, villages and stores. They looted the property, raped and murdered many of the people, and often ethnically cleansed areas. Rosa was thrilled by the Russian Revolution and assumed that something as uncivilized as Pogroms and anti-Semitism would never take place in the coming communist society of Russia. As a German Jew, although there was a terrible history from the Dark and Middle Ages of German Pogroms and ant-Semitism, Germany of 1917 was too civilized and modern to ever have attacks on Jews. She completely underestimated what the politicians of Russia and Germany would do to control their societies and pander to some while scapegoating and murdering Jews and other minorities. She herself was murdered by a German fascist anti-Semite 2 years after this statement.
He lost be 2 votes.
- 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.
