Gestapo agent.
CONTENTS:
Preface
The Galicia Division
Quality of Translation
Ukrainian Homogeneity
Were Ukrainians Nazis?
Simon Wiesenthal
What Happened in Lviv?
Nazi Propaganda Film
Collective Guilt
Paralysis of the Comparative
Function
60 Minutes' Cheap Shots
Ukrainian Anti-Semitism
Jewish Ukrainophobia
Mailbag
A Sense of Responsibility
What 60 Minutes Should Do
PostScript
PostScript
A discussion relevant to the above critique concerns third-party attempts to incite
Ukrainian-Jewish animosity and can be found within the Ukrainian Archive at Ukrainian
Anti-Semitism: Genuine and Spontaneous or Only Apparent and Engineered? The relevance lies in
the fact that The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes which you have just read above has been the target of
a crude attempt at anti-Semitization, and at the discreditation of the author, myself, as is
documented particularly at Lubomyr Prytulak: Enemies of Ukraine anti-Semitize The Ugly Face of
60 Minutes.
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Symon Petliura An Introduction
Long after Symon Petlura had gone into exile and was living in Paris, armed
resistance broke out again and again in his name in Ukraine. Indeed, even today his
name is still regarded by the Ukrainian masses as the symbol of the fight for freedom.
Symon Petliura: An Introduction
Is Symon Petliura the man who "slaughtered 60,000 Jews"? Symon Petliura is
relevant to the Ukrainian Archive primarily because he led the fight for Ukrainian
independence at the beginning of the twentieth century, and secondarily because
Morley Safer in his infamous 60 Minutes broadcast of 23Oct94, The Ugly Face of
Freedom, summed him up this way:
Street names have been changed. There is now a Petliura Street.
To Ukrainians, Symon Petliura was a great General, but to Jews,
he's the man who slaughtered 60,000 Jews in 1919.
Or is Symon Petliura a fighter for Ukrainian independence? But as the documents
in this PETLIURA section will begin to suggest, Safer's contemptuous dismissal is not
quite accurate and does not quite tell the whole story. We can begin with a few
short excerpts to provide background on Petliura from his entry in the Encyclopedia
of Ukraine:
Petliura, Symon [...] b 10 May 1879 in Poltava, d 25 May 1926 in
Paris. Statesman and publicist; supreme commander of the UNR Army
and president of the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic.
(T. Hunczak in Danylo Husar Struk (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine,
1993, Volume III, p. 856)
After the signing of the UNR-Polish Treaty of Warsaw in April 1920,
the UNR Army under Petliura's command and its Polish military ally
mounted an offensive against the Bolshevik occupation in Ukraine.
The joint forces took Kiev on 7 May 1920 but were forced to retreat
in June. Thereafter Petliura continued the war against the
Bolsheviks without Polish involvement. Poland and Soviet Russia
concluded an armistice in October 1920, and in November the major UNR
Army formations were forced to retreat across the Zbruch into
Polish-held territory and to submit to internment.
(T. Hunczak in Danylo Husar Struk (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine,
1993, Volume III, p. 856)
In late 1923, faced with increased Soviet demands that Poland hand
him over, he was forced to leave for Budapest. From there he went to
Vienna and Geneva, and in late 1924 he settled in Paris. In Paris he
founded the weekly Tryzub, and from there he oversaw the activities
of the UNR government-in-exile until his assassination by a
Bessarabian Jew claiming vengeance for Petliura's purported
responsibility for the pogroms in Ukraine (see Schwartzbard Trial).
He was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery.
(T. Hunczak in Danylo Husar Struk (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ukraine,
1993, Volume III, p. 856)
The above reference to Petliura's assassin being motivated by Jewish vengeance can be
taken in two ways: literally or as part of Kremlin-manufactured plot.
Assassinated by a Jew? In the first case, if the assassination was indeed the
work of a lone Jew longing for vengeance, then it might not be amiss to wonder
whether there has ever been any great Jewish leader who has been assassinated by a
Ukrainian for wrongs committed by Jews against Ukrainians, or for any other reason
for that matter. If not, and I think not, then one might wonder also what the
respective statistics might be for all cross-ethnic assassinations of leaders and
officials of not only the highest rank, but of any rank as well, and to wonder
finally whether any differences in such statistics might be attributable to a
differential incitement to vengeance within Jewish and Ukrainian cultures.
Or assassinated by the Kremlin? However, crediting Bessarabian watchmaker,
Yiddish poet, and assassin Shalom Schwartzbard's claim that he murdered Petliura to
satisfy a Jewish longing for vengeance is possibly to be taken in by Kremlin
disinformation, as the following passage explains (where the spelling becomes
"Schwarzbart"):
According to Bolshevist misinformation, the Jews are to blame for the
murder of Petlura. [...]
