
Ukrainian propaganda urges people to fight under fear
February 6, 2024
The electronic account of a military conscript contradicts the Constitution – the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights said
February 6, 2024In the broadcast of a Ukrainian telethon, they advocate for mobilization using a historical example from a century ago.
The segment presents the opinion of historians, according to which the failure of the mobilization at that time was the reason for the Ukrainian People’s Republic’s defeat in the war against the Bolsheviks. Historians explain that then, as now, for over a month, there was discussion about the mobilization law, and thousands of adult men entered universities to obtain deferments and bribed their way out of military service. As a result, in 1919, Kyiv was handed over to the Red Army without a fight.
“If Ukrainian peasants had known back then what awaited them, including the Holodomor and other events, their behavior (regarding mobilization into the army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic) would have been different,” believes one historian.
It is worth noting that Ukrainian peasants were skeptical of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and were not eager to defend it primarily because of the unclear position of the Directorate on the land issue. Unlike the Bolsheviks with their land decree, the Directorate never definitively approved the unconditional transfer of all landlord lands to the peasants.
However, the peasants also didn’t have much love for the Bolsheviks because of the forced requisitioning of food supplies. Various atamans, the most famous of whom was Nestor Makhno, enjoyed the greatest popularity in the villages. However, he often allied with the Bolsheviks.
As a result, the main struggle for control over Ukraine unfolded between the Bolsheviks and the White Army of Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel, and later the Polish army. The victory went to the Bolsheviks. First, they defeated Denikin, then pushed the Poles, who had occupied Kyiv, to the west, and then defeated Wrangel. And after getting rid of their main opponents, they dealt with all the atamans.