Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:38:46 +0100
From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Makhno info/Ukr-jews relationsips.


hello all

> > As for makhno being a racist, this is obvious nonsense. He was friends
> > with Voline (who was Jewish)
> 
> The war is the war; Makhno was'nt a rascist, but who knows all about his
> soldiers? Ukrainians are not so very good friends of Jews; why, I don't
> know (BTW, jews from Ukraine did at Soviet Empire often learn in estonian
> etc. universitys, because in Ukraine it was for jews almost impossible).

You obviously decided to ignore my point about Voline consulting a
Jewish historian who stated that the Makhnovists (i.e. the army, the
troops) had the best record of relations with the Jewish population
during the civil war. The testimony is in Voline's _the Unknown 
revolution_ and is quite clear on the matter -- the Makhnovists as
an army were not anti-jewish or commit anti-jewish acts.

And Makhno and his army took a *very* strong policy on racism in the
army -- people were shot for putting up pogromist posters, for example.

Iain