Replying to a statement eulogizing the late Semion Petlura, issued by the Ukrainian National Committee in Poland, a general meeting of the Club of Jewish Deputies adopted a resolution in which it declared that it condemns acts of murder. The resolution, however, establishes that “the murder of Petlura was an act of revenge for the hundreds of thousands of Jewish victims.”
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