a hot spring day in 1926 at the Paris sidewalk stood a well-dressed monsieur, and stared through the glass of the book of the on display.To him came the other gentleman and softly called out to him, calling name.Lovers of literature around, and then shots rang out, they rattled up until the drum revolver has not made a complete revolution.Gendarmes came running, they cautiously approached the killer, and he calmly gave them weapons and surrendered.
So in 1926, May 26, ended Biography Petlyura Simon Vasil'evich, one of the most famous fighters for Ukrainian independence, Exiles and convinced anti-Semite.He was only forty-seven years old, but he had become famous and become the object of hunting of the Soviet KGB.They are the first and fell suspicion.Carefully conducted investigation confirmed the veracity of the words of Samuel Shvartsbada (the name of the shooter), claiming that the deed it is a revenge for murdered Petliurists Ukrainian family, which consisted of fifteen people, and he is not no Bolshevik agent, and a simple Jew.
jury acquitted Shvartsbada fully acknowledging that the deaths of his relatives blame Simon V. Petlyura.Biography submitted to the court rejected all doubts that the victim initiated numerous ethnic cleansing carried out in respect of both the Jewish and Russian and the population.
May 17, 1879 in a poor family with many children Poltava was born a boy, who was christened Simon.His father was a cab driver, a young man could be educated only in the seminary, which did.Views about what should be the future of Ukraine formed in a young person within the precincts of the institution, where he in 1900 became a member of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, the political organization of nationalist persuasion.Interests of young people have been varied, he loved music and read Marx.In those years, among his friends were many Jews, from which it can be concluded that the anti-Semite, he became political reasons.
During protests and audacity expelled from the seminary Simon (1901), and two years later was arrested.Without freedom fighter languished in the dungeons of Ukraine, a year later he was released on bail, after which he joined the service of an accountant of the insurance company "Russia", not forgetting the party underground work.In 1914, seditious did not get to the front, the service it was burdensome, he served as zamupolnomochennogo Union Zemstvos.
active political biography of Petliura began after the February Revolution.He soon became the head of the Military Committee of the Central Rada.The political situation made it possible to declare the state sovereignty of Ukraine, which was promptly done.After the October revolution the armed forces of the independent republic were reorganized.Military ranks sounding songs for any patriot nationalist: "Smoking Ataman", "ataman", "cornet» ...
Ukrainian army should speak Ukrainian and Russian - to leave the "Mama", these were the first order.Independence, however, turned out to be fake rather than real, after the conclusion of the Brest peace Minister of War entered into submission the German General Staff, together with the servants of his divisions' sinezhupannikov. "The Germans will soon prefer to deal with the Hetman Skoropadsky.Biography Petlyura in this period consists of continuous twisting maneuvers.He promises to factory workers, land to the peasants, the Ukraine and the Ukrainians do not understand that the Germans and the French.
Of all these tempting offers the most realistic had the opportunity to plunder.Of course, the Ukrainians were forbidden to requisition property, but in such confusion does make out who is a Jew and who is "Moskal" ...
By 1919, the situation in Ukraine very confused.Reds fought with white, the Allies sent troops, the Poles did not lose too, Nestor Makhno controlled significant territory and Petliurists adhered to all who agreed to make a temporary alliance with them.Red and Denikin from such aid declined, and the French and the Germans demanded too high a price for his intercession.
Political Biography Petlyura ended in 1921.If it was necessary to someone, then the Bolsheviks, in order to shoot him.From Poland, whose leadership is more inclined to the decision on extradition, had to flee to Hungary and then Austria, and finally to Paris.There Stepan Grave (aka Symon Petliura), edits the magazine "Trident", organ of the Ukrainian nationalists, articles which are full of the word "Jew" and all its derivatives.
This lasted a couple of years.In 1926, all over.The funeral took place at the Paris cemetery de Montparnasse.
today in independent Ukraine Petliura remember much rarer than Mazepa and Bandera.It is not clear why this is so, because all three methods are so similar ...
