An anti-Jewish plot, with planned pogroms on the Jewish colonies, was revealed today at the opening of the trial in Charkov of 45 Ukrainian leaders charged with organizing an illegal “association to free Ukrainia,” with the purpose of overthrowing the Soviet, and conspiring with Poland to occupy Ukrainia.
Those on trial include a number of Ukrainian professors and some former members of General Petlura’s cabinet. The testimony at the trial showed that the association included in its plans, if it came into power, depriving the Jewish colonists of the land and returning it to the peasants, and the organization of pogroms in the colonies and cities and deportation of all Jews.
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