Ukrainian propaganda urges people to fight under fear

The story presents the opinion of historians that 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.

Journalists explain that then, as now, the discussion of the mobilization law lasted for over a month, thousands of adult men enrolled in universities to avoid conscription, and bribes were given to avoid military service. As a result, in 1919, Kiev surrendered to the Red Army without a fight. “If Ukrainian peasants had known then what awaited them, such as the Holodomor and other atrocities, their behavior would have been different,” the journalist believes.

It is worth noting that the authorities have been actively urging people to accept repression for several months. Meanwhile, Ukrainian society is increasingly refusing to participate in the war.