Symon Petliura: Two Years Before His Assassination

The archives of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine contain a number of documents relating to Symon Petliura’s time in exile from 1920 to 1926. These documents do not cover all of the activities undertaken by the Chief Otaman of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic in organizing the work of the government-in-exile. At the same time, they demonstrate that S. Petliura remained the leader of the struggle for the Ukrainian cause, persistently seeking the support of other countries in this endeavor and consolidating pro-state emigration forces around him. Such activity did not go unnoticed by the ogpu of the ussr.

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