File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 475


Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:56:23 +0300 (EEST)
From: Meelis Koll <meelis-AT-kairi.pltsyg.edu.ee>
Subject: Re: Makhno info/Ukr-jews relationsips.




On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Iain McKay wrote:

> the Makhnovists as
> an army were not anti-jewish or commit anti-jewish acts.

I'm really very glad, if it was so, beacause I'm respecting Nestor Makhno
very much... But I have some experiences, not about makhnovist, but about
estonian soldiers at WW II; the point is in this, that the historians are
explain some events differently as old soldiers (and here, in Estonia, the
historians are decorate the history; they doesn't present naked truth).
Maybe somewhere it's not so?  

> 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.

One more time: I want to believe it!


M.K.


   

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