Word: ukrainians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Culprit. The accused man, who not only admitted committing the crime but even boasted of it, was a young Jewish Ukrainian, now a naturalized Frenchman, Sholem (Samuel) Schwartzbard, a watchmaker by profession. Short, ugly, he yet commanded the attention of the whole court, for he told his story, not as do many prisoners, shamefaced and haltingly, forced to reveal their crimes and motives by harassing lawyers?no, Watchmaker Schwartzbard openly confessed with gleaming eyes and hysterical mien, his body trembling with passion, how he slew "General" Simon Petlura to avenge the deaths of thousands of Jews slain in pogroms, which...
...trying to separate that province from the rest of Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived Ukrainian republic. He played off the Poles against the Bolsheviki and the Bolsheviki against the Poles and, eventually, again fell from power, this time to flee to France, where he lived in Paris until slain there by M. Schwartzbard. Under his regime, it is charged, more than 50,000 Jews were killed...
...Petlura was responsible. Even Ukrainian officers said so. His soldiers killed our people, shouting his name. One regiment had a band and it played while knives fell on the heads of innocent babies. Petlura could have stopped it, but he wouldn't listen to our pleas...
Simultaneously the Ukrainian Soviet authorities announced that private persons will hereafter be allowed to erect small factories under their own exclusive superintendence. Heretofore such "liberty of capital" has been abhorred as flat Communist heresy...
...established by Treaty of Union signed in 1922 by the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic (Russia proper, Turkestan, Kirghiz, Tartar, Bashkir, Mountain Republic, Daghestan, Crimea, Votiak, Mari, Chuvash, German Volga areas, the Far Eastern region), the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, the White Russian S S R. and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federal S. R. The Treaty was ratified last January...