(Jewish Group) In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews
Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews in that country. Just over a century ago, between 1918 and 1921, tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews were murdered, tortured and raped in hundreds of pogroms by marauders, some of them Russian.
Historians place the number of people affected at well over one million, although the precise number of dead has been estimated from 50,000 to 200,000. In chaotic scenes of people fleeing for safety, then as now, societal restraints can be eliminated and violence unleashed.
Truth itself has been assailed during sustained unrest, as in Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Putin justified the “special military operation” as necessary to “denazify” Ukraine.
Of course, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine is Jewish, and, based on electoral results, his country has a less significant neo-Nazi presence than Russia or some European nations.
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