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64-648: The army, formed on April 15, 1945, and commanded by General Pavlo Shandruk , consisted of the following units: Plans were made regarding the inclusion of the Ukrainian Liberation Army , Kuban Cossacks and Georgian military divisions. The primary purpose of creation of the Ukrainian National Army was to integrate all the Ukrainian units fighting the Soviets under a single command. The intended size of

128-403: A duma (epic poem) in memory of Symon Petliura. To date Petliura is the only modern Ukrainian politician to have a duma created and sung in his memory. This duma became popular among the kobzars of left-bank Ukraine and was sung also by Stepan Pasiuha , Petro Drevchenko , Bohushchenko, and Chumak. The Soviets also tried their hand at portraying Petliura through the arts in order to discredit

192-496: A Jewish assistant minister in Petliura's UPR government, declared in May 1919 that the Ukrainian government had given Jews more rights than they enjoyed in any other European government. However, after 1918, military units became involved in pogroms against Jews. During Petliura's term as Head of State (1919–20), pogroms continued to be perpetrated on Ukrainian territory. Petliura's role in

256-541: A bad relationship with general Andrei Vlasov 's Russian Liberation Army (KONR) and was never subordinated to it. Pavlo Shandruk Pavlo Feofanovych Shandruk ( Ukrainian : Павло Феофанович Шандрук ; Polish : Pawło Szandruk ; February 28, 1889 – February 15, 1979) was a general in the army of the Ukrainian National Republic , a colonel of the Polish Army , and a prominent general of

320-624: A cinema manager in Skierniewice . During this time he was employing and giving shelter to Polish underground members, hunted by the Gestapo. In February 1945 he accepted the position of the head of the Ukrainian National Committee and simultaneously became the commander of the newly formed Ukrainian National Army (UNA) into which all Ukrainian formations who had fought on the German side on

384-485: A daughter, Lesia (1911–1942). From 1912 until May 1917, he served as a co-editor of the influential Russian-language journal Ukrayinskaya Zhizn  [ uk ] ( Ukrainian Life ). As the editor of numerous journals and newspapers, Petliura published over 15,000 critical articles, reviews, stories and poems under an estimated 120 noms-de-plume. His prolific work in both the Russian and Ukrainian languages helped shape

448-606: A gun, proclaimed "dirty dog, killer of my people, defend yourself!" and shot him five times. Evading a lynch-mob attempting to avenge Petliura, Schwartzbard gave himself into the police with a note reading: "I have killed Petliura to avenge the death of the thousands of pogrom victims in Ukraine who were massacred by Petliura's forces without his taking any steps to prevent these massacres." The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on 27 May 1926 that Petliura's "pogrom bands" were responsible for killing tens of thousands of Jews. Schwartzbard

512-420: A literary flair. The question of national awareness was often of significance in his literary work. Petliura's articles had a significant impact on the shaping of Ukrainian national awareness in the early 20th century. He published articles and brochures under a variety of noms de plume, including V. Marchenko, V. Salevsky, I. Rokytsky, and O. Riastr. Petliura is considered a controversial figure connected with

576-611: A meeting with the Polish general Władysław Anders in London, and asked him to protect the army from deportation to the Soviet Union. After the personal intervention of General Anders, Shandruk and his soldiers were considered by the Western Allies as Polish pre-war citizens (without checking whether they had Polish citizenship or not) and so, unlike most Ukrainian soldiers, they were not sent to

640-553: A much smaller role in the Ukrainian People's Republic ), since Petliura was too closely associated with violence to make a good symbolic figure. In a 2008 poll of "Famous Ukrainians of all times" (in which respondents did not receive any lists or tips), Petliura was not mentioned (Hrushevsky came in sixth place in this poll). In the 2008 TV project Velyki Ukraïntsi ("Greatest Ukrainians"), he placed 26th. A nephew of Symon Petliura, Stepan Skrypnyk , became Patriarch Mstyslav of

704-810: A museum complex also being planned in Poltava. Petliura's statue, unveiled in Vinnytsia in October 2017, was denounced as disgraceful and deplorable by the World Jewish Congress . To mark the 80th anniversary of his assassination, a twelve-volume edition of his writings, including articles, letters and historic documents, has been published in Kyiv by Taras Shevchenko University and the State Archive of Ukraine. In 1992 in Poltava ,

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768-521: A series of readings known as "Petliurivski chytannia" have become an annual event, and since 1993, they have taken place annually at Kyiv University . In June 2009, Kyiv City Council renamed Comintern Street (located in Shevchenkivskyi District ) as Symon Petliura Street  [ uk ] to commemorate the 130th anniversary of his birth. In modern-day Ukraine, Petliura has not been as lionized as Mykhailo Hrushevsky (who played

832-508: A suburb of Poltava (then part of the Russian Empire ), Symon Petliura was the son of Vasyl Pavlovych Petliura and Olha Oleksiyivna (née Marchenko), of Cossack background . His father, a Poltava city resident, had owned a transportation business; his mother was a daughter of an Orthodox hieromonk (priest-monk). Petliura obtained his initial education in parochial schools , and planned to become an Orthodox priest. Petliura studied in

896-568: A turning point of the 1919–21 Polish-Bolshevik war . Following initial successes, Piłsudski 's and Petliura's forces had to retreat to the Vistula River and to the Polish capital, Warsaw . The Polish Army defeated the Bolshevik Russians in the end, but the Red Army remained in parts of Ukraine and therefore Ukrainians were unable to secure their independence. Petliura directed the affairs of

960-665: Is also accused of not having done enough to stop the pogroms and being afraid to punish officers and soldiers engaged in crimes against Jews for fear of losing their support. On 25 May 1926, at 14:12, by the Gibert bookstore, Petliura was walking on Rue Racine near Boulevard Saint-Michel of the Latin Quarter in Paris and was approached by Sholom Schwartzbard . Schwartzbard asked him in Ukrainian, "Are you Mr. Petliura?" Petliura did not answer but raised his walking cane. Schwartzbard pulled out

1024-561: The 1939 defensive war . He became a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 1948. Symon Petliura Symon Vasyliovych Petliura ( Ukrainian : Симон Васильович Петлюра ; 22 May [ O.S. 10 May] 1879 – 25 May 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist . He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during

1088-671: The Anti-Hetman Uprising of November 1918 and became a member of the Directorate of Ukraine as the Chief of Military Forces. Following the fall of Kyiv (February 1919) and the emigration of Vynnychenko from Ukraine, Petliura became the leader of the Directorate on 11 February 1919. In his capacity as head of the Army and State, he continued to fight both Bolshevik and White forces in Ukraine for

1152-613: The Battle of the Somme . It is reported that Schwartzbard told famous fellow anarchist leader Nestor Makhno in Paris that he was terminally ill and expected to die and that he would take Petliura with him; Makhno forbade Schwartzbard to do so. Schwartzbard's parents were among fifteen members of his family murdered in the pogroms in Odesa. The core defense at the Schwartzbard trial was — as presented by

1216-724: The Kuban Cossack Host helping to organize over 200,000 documents. In December 1903 he was arrested for organizing a RUP branch in Yekaterinodar and for publishing inflammatory anti-tsarist articles in the Ukrainian press outside of Imperial Russia (in Austrian-controlled Lemberg, currently named Lviv , in Galicia ). Released on bail in March 1904, he moved briefly to Kyiv and then to Lemberg . In Lviv, Petliura lived under

1280-541: The NKVD (the Soviet secret police). With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, previously restricted Soviet archives have allowed numerous politicians and historians to review Petliura's role in Ukrainian history. Some consider him a national hero who strove for the independence of Ukraine. Several cities, including Kyiv , the Ukrainian capital, and Poltava , the city of his birth, have erected monuments to Petliura, with

1344-571: The Soviet Union on 30 December 1922, Petliura, in late 1923 left Poland for Budapest , then Vienna , Geneva and finally settled in Paris in early 1924. Here he established and edited the Ukrainian-language newspaper Tryzub . During his time as leader of the Directorate, Petliura was active in supporting Ukrainian culture both in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora . Petliura introduced

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1408-663: The USSR . This provoked fierce protests from the Soviets. Later, he lived in Germany and the United States. Shandruk penned a number of works regarding military history in Ukrainian, Polish, and English, among them Arms of Valor (NY, 1959). He was the editor of the collection of documents regarding the Ukrainian–Soviet War of 1920. Shandruk was decorated with Polish Virtuti Militari order for his performance in Polish Army during

1472-641: The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church on 6 June 1990. In December 2022, the city of Izium – recently liberated from Russian forces – decided to rename Maxim Gorky Street as Symon Petliura Street. For part of the Western Ukrainian diaspora, Petliura is remembered as a national hero, a fighter for Ukrainian independence, a martyr, who inspired hundreds of thousands to fight for an independent Ukrainian state. He has inspired original music, and youth organizations. During

1536-640: The Ukrainian National Army , a military force that fought against the Soviet Union under Nazi German command at the close of World War II. Shandruk was born in the village of Borsuky , near Kremenets in the Volhynia Governorate of Ukraine in the Russian Empire (present-day Ternopil Oblast , Ukraine). He completed his studies in 1911 at the Nizhyn Institute majoring in history and languages and later underwent postgraduate studies at

1600-519: The Ukrainian War of Independence , a part of the wider Russian Civil War . Petliura was born to a family of Cossack heritage in Poltava . From an early age he embraced socialism and Ukrainian nationalism, which he advocated through his highly prolific career as a journalist. After the 1917 February Revolution overthrew the Tsarist monarchy, the Ukrainian People's Republic was proclaimed and Petliura

1664-526: The government-in-exile from Poland, but eventually settled in Paris. During the Civil War, the UNA were responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Jewish civilians , and Petliura's role in the pogroms has been a topic of dispute. In 1926, Petliura was assassinated in Paris by Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard , who had lost relatives in the pogroms. Born on 22 May [ O.S. 10 May] 1879 in

1728-581: The pogroms of Jews during his rule of the Ukrainian National Republic . According to Peter Kenez , "before the advent of Hitler, the greatest mass murder of Jews occurs in Ukraine in the course of the Civil War. All participants in the conflict were guilty of murdering Jews, even the Bolsheviks; however the Volunteer Army had the largest number of victims." The number of Jews killed during

1792-601: The 19th Polish brigade from annihilation in a trap. After the war, he received the Virtuti Militari cross from Władysław Anders for this action. After capitulation, Shandruk, as a Polish officer, was captured and sent to a German POW Camp, from where he was later released due to his injuries. After falling ill, he was arrested by the Gestapo but set free before the Germans attacked the Soviet Union. From 1940 to 1944 he worked as

1856-580: The 9th Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Recruit Regiment of the Ukrainian National Army. After the reorganization of the army in 1920, he led the 4th Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division. After the failed Kiev offensive and the subsequent collapse of the Ukrainian National Republic, he was interned in Kalisz , Poland, together with the remaining Ukrainian soldiers. He testified for Symon Petliura at Schwartzbard trial along with Mykola Shapoval and Oleksandr Shulhin . Until 1936, he worked in different positions for

1920-810: The Alexandrovsk Military Academy in Moscow. In the First World War Shandruk was the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 232nd Reserve Infantry Regiment of the Russian Imperial Army. With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution , he joined the Ukrainian National Republic in its struggle against both White and Red Russian forces. He was successively in command of the Zaporozhian Independent Rifle Battalion,

1984-604: The Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine), in a speech given in Kharkiv and repeated in Moscow, warned of the danger Petliura represented to Soviet power. It was after this speech that the command had allegedly been given to assassinate Petliura. Petliura was buried alongside his wife and daughter in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Petliura's two sisters, Orthodox nuns who had remained in Poltava, were arrested and shot in 1928 by

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2048-615: The Eastern front were merged. (It came to about 50,000 men). In April 1945 now General Shandruk joined the UNA forces located at the front in Austria. On 28 April the UNA swore an oath of allegiance to Ukraine. On May 8, 1945, Shandruk and the 1st Galicia Division , formerly the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), the main part of the Ukrainian National Army , surrendered to American and British forces in Austria. After that, he requested

2112-626: The Italian border and surrendering to the British Army 's 15th Army Group , while others moved toward the German and Swiss borders and surrendered to the US Army 's 6th Army Group . The UNA soldiers were interned in Northern Italy, in the area controlled by Polish II Corps forces. After the capitulation, Shandruk asked for a meeting with Polish general Władysław Anders in London, and asked him to protect

2176-728: The Russian Orthodox Seminary in Poltava from 1895 to 1901. While there he joined the Hromada society in 1898. When his membership in Hromada was discovered in 1901, he was expelled from the seminary. In 1900 Petliura joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP). In 1902, under threat of arrest, he moved to Yekaterinodar in the Kuban , where he worked for two years – initially as a schoolteacher and later as an archivist for

2240-522: The Ukrainian government-in-exile from Tarnów in Lesser Poland , and when the Soviet government in Moscow requested Petliura's extradition from Poland, the Poles engineered his "disappearance", secretly moving him from Tarnów to Warsaw. Bolshevik Russia persistently demanded that Petliura be handed over. Protected by several Polish friends and colleagues, such as Henryk Józewski , with the establishment of

2304-615: The Ukrainian National Republic government in exile initially led by Symon Petliura . In 1936 he joined the Polish Army , after which he obtained further training in the Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna (Higher Military Academy). Upon the completion of his training, he accepted a commission and was promoted to the rank of major in the Polish Army. As a colonel, he fought in the Polish Army in September 1939. On 23 September Colonel Shandruk rescued

2368-441: The Ukrainian national leader. A number of humorous songs appeared in which Petliura is portrayed as a traveling beggar whose only territory is that which is under his train carriage. A number of plays such as The Republic on Wheels by Yakov Mamontov and the opera Shchors by Boris Liatoshinsky and Arsenal by Heorhiy Maiboroda portray Petliura in a negative light, as a lackey who sold out Western Ukraine to Poland, often using

2432-490: The army against the deportation to Soviet Union . Despite the Soviet pressure, Anders managed to protect Ukrainian soldiers as the former citizens of the Second Republic of Poland . Shandruk and the bulk of his forces managed to remain in the West, with many of the former UNA soldiers joining the French Foreign Legion . Other groups, splintered, either surrendered to the Soviet or the Western Allies, facing repatriation, with several hundred interned in Switzerland. The UNA had

2496-569: The army, encompassing all the Ukrainian units subordinate to Oberkommando des Heeres was 220,000. However within the two months left till the end of the war, Shandruk was able to gather about 50,000 soldiers. In reality, Shandruk was able to command only the 1st Division and elements of the 2nd Division. On May 7, under his influence, the division – located in Western Austria by this time, after slowly moving from Slovenia (February 1945) – withdrew further from Red Army forces. The Army now split into several groups, with one heading towards

2560-471: The awarding of the title " People's Artist of Ukraine " to artists who had made significant contributions to Ukrainian culture. A similar titled award was continued after a significant break under the Soviet regime. Among those who had received this award was blind kobza player Ivan Kuchuhura-Kucherenko . He also saw the value in gaining international support and recognition of Ukrainian arts through cultural exchanges. Most notably, Petliura actively supported

2624-441: The course of the year, Petliura continued to defend the fledgling republic against incursions by the Bolsheviks , Anton Denikin 's White Russians, and the Romanian-Polish troops. By autumn of 1919, most of Denikin's White Russian forces were defeated — in the meantime, however, the Bolsheviks had grown to become the dominant force in Ukraine. On 5 December 1919, Petliura withdrew to Poland , which had previously recognized him as

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2688-547: The courts try them for their actions, without sparing the criminals the severest punishments according to the law. The government of the UNR, understanding all the harm that pogroms inflict on the state, has issued a proclamation to the entire population of the land, with the appeal to oppose all measures by enemies that instigate pogroms against the Jewish population... Chief Otaman Petliura, 26 August 1919 The newly formed Ukrainian state ( Ukrainian People's Republic ) promised Jews full equality and autonomy. Arnold Margolin ,

2752-404: The editor of the literary magazine Slovo (Ukrainian: Слово , The Word ) and co-editor of Ukrayina (Ukrainian: Україна , "Ukraine"). Because of the closure of these publications by the Russian Imperial authorities, Petliura had once again to move from Kyiv. He went to Moscow in 1909, where he worked briefly as an accountant. There in 1910 he married Olha Bilska (1885–1959), with whom he had

2816-520: The government and became the head of the Haydamaky Kish  [ uk ] , a military formation of Sloboda Ukraine (in Kharkiv ). In January–February 1918 the Haidamaka Kish was forced back to protect Kyiv during the Uprising at the Kyiv Arsenal Plant and to prevent the capture of the capital by the Bolshevik Red Guard . After the April 1918 Ukrainian coup d'état , Pavlo Skoropadskyi 's government arrested Petliura and incarcerated him for four months in Bila Tserkva . Petliura participated in

2880-448: The head of the legal government of Ukraine. In April 1920, as head of the Ukrainian People's Republic , he signed an alliance in Warsaw with the Polish government, agreeing to a border on the River Zbruch and recognizing Poland's right to Galicia in exchange for military aid in overthrowing the Bolshevik régime. Polish forces, reinforced by Petliura's remaining troops (some two divisions), attacked Kyiv on 7 May 1920, in what proved

2944-422: The lullaby " Oi Khodyt Son Kolo Vikon " All three musicians later emigrated to the United States. In Paris, Petliura directed the activities of the government of the Ukrainian National Republic in exile. He launched the weekly Tryzub , and continued to edit and write numerous articles under various pen names with an emphasis on questions dealing with national oppression in Ukraine. These articles were written with

3008-454: The magazine Vilna Ukrayina (Ukrainian: Вільна Україна , "Independent Ukraine") until July 1905. Tsarist censors, however, closed this magazine, and Petliura moved back to Kyiv. In Kyiv, Petliura first worked for Rada . In 1907 he became editor of the literary magazine Slovo . Also, he co-edited the magazine Ukrayina . In 1909, these publications were closed by Russian imperial police, and Petliura moved back to Moscow to publish. There, he

3072-464: The mindset of the Ukrainian population in the years leading up to the Revolution in both Eastern and Western Ukraine. His prolific correspondence was of great benefit when the Revolution broke out in 1917, as he had contacts throughout Ukraine. As the Ukrainian language had been outlawed in the Russian Empire by the Ems Ukaz of 1876, Petliura found more freedom to publish Ukraine oriented articles in Saint Petersburg than in Ukraine. There, he published

3136-439: The name of Sviatoslav Tagon , working alongside Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatiuk as an editor for the journal Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk  [ uk ] ("Literary Scientific Herald"), the Shevchenko Scientific Society and as a co-editor of Volya  [ uk ] newspaper. He also contributed numerous articles to the Ukrainian-language press in Galicia . At the end of 1905, after an nationwide amnesty

3200-508: The next ten months. With the outbreak of hostilities between Ukraine and Soviet Russia in January 1919, and with Vynnychenko's emigration, Petliura ultimately became the leading figure in the Directorate. During the winter of 1919 the Petliura army lost most of Ukraine (including Kyiv) to Bolsheviks and by March 6 relocated to Podolia . In the spring of 1919 he managed to extinguish a coup-d'etat led by Volodymyr Oskilko who saw Petliura cooperating with socialists such as Borys Martos . During

3264-412: The noted jurist Henri Torres — that he was avenging the deaths of more than 50,000 Jewish victims of the pogroms, whereas the prosecution (both criminal and civil) tried to show that Petliura was not responsible for the pogroms and that Schwartzbard was a Soviet agent. After a trial lasting eight days the jury acquitted Schwartzbard. According to a defected KGB operative Peter Deriabin , Schwartzbard

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3328-412: The period is estimated to be between 50,000 and 200,000. A total of 1,236 violent attacks on Jews had been recorded between 1918 and 1921 in Ukraine. Among them, 493 were carried out by Ukrainian People's Republic soldiers under the command of Symon Petliura, 307 by independent Ukrainian warlords, 213 by Denikin 's army, 106 by the Red Army , and 32 by the Polish Army . It is time to realize that

3392-568: The pogroms has been a topic of dispute since his assassination in 1926 and the succeeding Schwartzbard's trial . In 1969, the journal Jewish Social Studies published two opposing views regarding Petliura's responsibility in pogroms against Jews during his reign over Ukraine, by scholars Taras Hunczak and Zosa Szajkowski . Later the Journal published letters from the two authors. According to Hunczak, Petliura actively sought to halt anti-Jewish violence on numerous occasions, introducing capital punishment for carrying out pogroms. Conversely, he

3456-444: The revolution Petliura became the subject of numerous folk songs, primarily as a hero calling for his people to unite against foreign oppression. His name became synonymous with the call for freedom. 15 songs were recorded by the ethnographer rev. prof. K. Danylevsky. In the songs Petliura is depicted as a soldier, in a manner similar to Robin Hood , mocking Skoropadsky and the Bolshevik Red Guard . News of Petliura's assassination in

3520-399: The struggle for Ukrainian independence as a publicist. In 1924, Petliura became the editor and publisher of the weekly journal Tryzub  [ uk ] ( Trident ). He contributed to this journal using various pen names, including V. Marchenko, and V. Salevsky. In May 1917 Petliura attended the First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soldier Deputies held in Kyiv as a delegate. On 18 May he

3584-464: The summer of 1926 was marked by numerous revolts in eastern Ukraine particularly in Boromlia, Zhehailivtsi, (Sumy province), Velyka Rublivka, Myloradov (Poltava province), Hnylsk, Bilsk, Kuzemyn and all along the Vorskla River from Okhtyrka to Poltava , Burynia, Nizhyn (Chernihiv province) and other cities. These revolts were brutally pacified by the Soviet administration. The blind kobzars Pavlo Hashchenko and Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko composed

3648-449: The work of cultural leaders such as the choreographer Vasyl Avramenko , conductor Oleksander Koshetz and bandurist Vasyl Yemetz , to allow them to travel internationally and promote an awareness of Ukrainian culture. Koshetz created the Ukrainian Republic Capella and took it on tour internationally, giving concerts in Europe and the Americas. One of the concerts by the Capella inspired George Gershwin to write " Summertime ", based on

3712-411: The world Jewish population—their children, their women—was enslaved and deprived of its national freedom, just like we were. It should not go anywhere away from us; it has been living with us since time immemorial, sharing our fate and misfortune with us. I decisively order that all those who will be inciting you to carry out pogroms be expelled from our army and tried as traitors of the Motherland. Let

3776-412: Was a Soviet ( NKVD ) agent and acted on the order from a former chairman of the Soviet Ukrainian government and current Soviet Ambassador to France , Christian Rakovsky . The special operation of the GPU was consolidated by GPU agent Mikhail Volodin, who arrived in France 8 August 1925, and who had been in close contact with Schwartzbard. It is claimed that in March 1926, Vlas Chubar (Chairman of

3840-409: Was an anarchist of Jewish descent, born in Ukraine. He participated in the Jewish self-defense of Balta in 1905. The Russian Tsarist government sentenced him to 3 months in prison for "provoking" the Balta pogrom. He was twice convicted of taking part in anarchist "expropriation" (burglary) and bank robbery in Austria-Hungary . He later joined the French Foreign Legion (1914–1917) and was wounded in

3904-446: Was co-editor of the Russian-language journal Ukrayinskaya Zhizn to familiarize the local population with news and culture of what was known as Malorossia . He was the chief editor of this publication from 1912 to 1914. In Moscow, he married his wife Olha Bilska in 1915 (later she was also known as her husband under the surname of Marchenko). There, in Moscow was born the daughter of Petliura, Lesia (Olesia). In Paris, Petliura continued

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3968-478: Was declared by the authorities, Petliura returned briefly to Kyiv , but soon moved to the Russian capital of Petersburg in order to publish the socialist-democratic monthly magazine Vil’na Ukrayina ("Free Ukraine") along with Prokip Poniatenko  [ uk ] and Mykola Porsh . After Russian censors closed this magazine in July 1905, he moved back to Kyiv where he worked for the newspaper Rada  [ uk ] ("The Council"). In 1907–09 he became

4032-635: Was elected head of its military. The Republic was briefly interrupted by the pro-German Ukrainian State , but in late 1918 Petliura, along with other members of the socialist Directorate of Ukraine , organised a revolt and overthrew the regime, restoring the Republic. He became the leader of the Directorate in early 1919, after the Bolsheviks invaded Ukraine and drove the UNA to Galicia . Facing imminent defeat, Petliura entered an alliance with Józef Piłsudski 's Poland . The Polish–Soviet War concluded with Polish victory but Ukraine remained under Soviet control, forcing Petliura into exile. He initially directed

4096-413: Was elected head of the Ukrainian General Military Committee , today seen as the ultimate progenitor of the modern Ukrainian Ministry of Defense . With the proclamation of the Central Council of Ukraine on 28 June 1917, Petliura became the first Secretary (Minister) for Military Affairs. Disagreeing with the politics of the then chairman of the General Secretariat Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Petliura left

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