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Proskurov: the pogroms
Feb 1919 — Some 1,500 Jews are murdered here in a single day by Directory troops — one atrocity in a wave that kills perhaps 100,000 across Ukraine. The era’s vast anti-Jewish violence, named plainly and mourned.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — The Borderlands’ Own Revolutions in The Russian Revolution, 1905–1924.
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