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peoples of the Ukraine.

Our enemies intend thus to split the Ukrainian and Jewish laboring masses

whose ways, in fact, have been bound together by three hundred years of

Russian tsarist yoke.

Our national army must bring equality, brotherhood and freedom to the

Ukrainian as well as the Jewish citizens who are also supporting actively

the government of the Ukrainian Democratic Republic. All their parties,

i.e.: Bund, Obyednantsi, Poalej-Zion and People's Party are standing on

the principles of the independence of the Ukraine, and are participating

in the reconstruction of the republic.

I know myself how the representatives of the Jewish population have

helped our army and supported our legal republican government.

The enemies of our state, the Bolshevists, are shooting down not only the

Ukrainian but also the Jewish people, depriving the others of the barest

means of living.

I have the highest esteem for the sacrifices made during this war upon

the altar of the fatherland by the Jewish population.

From the reports by the commanders of our brave divisions and corps as

well from reports by State Inspectors I have already learned that the

Jewish population brought help to our wounded and sick soldiers, in the

hospitals which had been built hastily 3-5 kilometers behind the

battlefronts.

I have been touched deeply by tears of thankfulness in the eyes of our

soldiers for the loving care and human aid given them by Jews, and I have

noted with satisfaction how the soldiers of our army were standing guard

at the shops and stores of Jews in order to protect them against

plunderers.

The restoration of a bridge at Starokonstantyniv - which had been

destroyed by the Bolshevists - by the Jewish population in an exceedingly

short time, as well as their help with foodstuffs and underwear testify

also to the loyal conduct of Jews in relation to our army.

I am convinced and I ardently hope that in the future such help on the

part of Jews will occur ever more frequently and that they will continue

to further the cause of peace in our country.

The Minister for Jewish Affairs has by a series of measures already

exercised some influence upon the Bolshevist circles of Jews so that many

of them no longer support Bolshevism, since they consider it now to be

their ruin.

Together with you I call upon the Jewish citizens to go with us and to

support wholeheartedly our army and our government; then we shall be able

to affirm that the government of the Ukrainian Democratic Republic and

you, its army, will finish that great responsible work which you are now

doing - destroying the power of the Bolshevists and building up our

independent republic in which each nationality enjoys full rights and a

peaceful life.

Officers and soldiers of the Ukrainian Army! The Ukrainian-Jewish

laboring masses see in you their liberation, and future generations will

not forget your services rendered to them; history will with pride record

on its pages your achievements in this struggle. Beware of provocations,

and have no mercy on provocateurs or on those who execute pogroms, or

incite the weakest among you to this action.

Let the death sentence overtake the perpetrators of pogroms and

provocateurs. I demand the strictest discipline from you so that not

even a hair of an i

Bear in mind that you are the elite sons of your great nation which wants

to live its independent life and to be subjugated by no one, and

therefore keep an unflinching watch on its interests as well as on the

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;

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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 begi

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 i

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

boys. Karab-Tchevsky tells us in the first part of his memoirs ("What My

Eyes Saw") that his mother had already in his childhood read to him the

New Testament, and when it came to the torturing of Jesus Christ, his

nurse or housemaid would exclaim: "the hideous Jews, they surely killed

Christ by torture!" (p. 23).

The pogroms of the years 1880 in Kishinev and Homel, came as the result

of false rumors and of promises of exemption from punishment for

plundering during three days. This time, however, the participation of

Jews in the Bolshevist movement was no more a rumor, but a fact which it

was very easy to exaggerate. On the other side, the impunity for

plundering lasted this time not only three days, but indefinitely on