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2 unusual facts about Ukrainian people


Nahum Gergel

Gergel’s study of pogroms is very often quoted as the proof that the Ukrainian National Republic army, led by Symon Petliura, incited and took part in pogroms.

Zeev Latsky

In April 1918, he was appointed Minister for Jewish Affairs in the Ukrainian People's Republic, replacing Fareynikte Moishe Zilberfarb.


Antisemitism in Ukraine

In December 1918 Hetman of the Ukrainian State Pavlo Skoropadskyi was deposed and the Directorate (also called Directoria) was established as the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic (abbreviated UNR).

Kensington, Brooklyn

Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities.

Rafael Sóbis

Inter's president at the time, Fernando Carvalho, suggested the change to only Sobis, the surname of his Ukrainian origins, because it could be more attractive for the European leagues, where the boy could get dual citizenship.

Russians in Ukraine

Although macroscopically Ukraine was fought over by several powers: Austro-Hungary, Germany, Poland, Romania; Ukrainian People's Republic, the Anarchist Black Army as well as the Red Army and the White Army, the population of New Russia by large allied themselves only with the latter three.

Semen Hryzlo

He later came under the command the Northern Front of the Ukrainian People's Army led by otaman Volodymyr Oskilko.

Taras Bulba-Borovets

From 1943 the Polisska Sich became known as the Ukrainian National Revolutionary Army and the insurgency was directed according to the plan of the General Command of the UNR.


see also

Between Hitler and Stalin

In a chronological manner, Nowytski's film unfolds during the years of Soviet-Nazi collaboration recounting the losses and suffering of the Ukrainian people; the documentary shifts to the destruction wrought by Joseph Stalin's scorched earth policy as the Soviet Union military retreated, and shows the ruins left behind by the German and then the Soviet offensives.

Omeljan Pritsak

Unlike his predecessors Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Dmytro Doroshenko, and Ivan Krypiakevych, who wrote national histories or histories of the Ukrainian people, Pritsak followed the Ukrainian historian of Polish background, Viacheslav Lypynsky, in proposing the ideal of writing a "territorialist" history of Ukraine which would include the Polish, Turkic, and other peoples that have inhabited the country from ancient times.

West Ukrainian People's Republic

148: Dr. Lonhyn Tsehelsky, the western Ukrainian negotiator with the Kiev government and primary author of the Union between the West Ukrainian Republic and the Kiev-based Ukrainian People's Republic, expressed shock at the actions of the "rabble" (holota) when the Ukrainian People's Republic came to power.

Zaporizhian Sich

The Zaporizhian Sich emerged as a natural method of defense by the Ukrainian people against the frequent and devastating raids of Crimean Tatars, who captured hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Belorussians and Poles.