Here's Nestor Makhno. The actual "Most Interesting Man" of his day.
And frankly, I don't buy ANY of the revisionist history most available to us. I take him at his word and deed that as a committed Anarchist, he was by definition not an Anti-Semite.
To the contrary, the Makhnovist Revolutionary Movement not only contained a large Jewish contingent, but also organized defenses of Jewish shtetl's and outlawed Pogroming, punishable by death. A sentence carried out on more than a handful of occasions.
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| Makhnovschina Banner Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine |
So while we see what's happening today, we'll all have a little more context about the region's history.
Pass it along.
Pass it along.
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| Kiev Ukraine, 1/22/2013 |
