Ukraine opens monument to nationalist icon Petliura blamed for anti-Jewish pogroms

Published time: 15 Oct, 2017 22:57 A monument to Symon Petliura, who fought for Ukrainian independence after the 1917 Russian Revolution, and under whose leadership thousands of Jews were killed in pogroms, has been opened in the city of Vinnitsa in western Ukraine. The sculpture was erected in the courtyard of the building that formerly […]