Despite the fact that Symon Petliura himself was now dead—murdered two years earlier by an assassin’s bullet in Paris—the memory of how his forces had once conquered Kyiv, backed by Polish forces, was never far from the two officers’ thoughts: Notably reanimated in recent days are the Petliurists, who are trying to make Ukraine into a beachhead for a future imperialist campaign in the USSR. There is no doubt that the government of Piłsudski stands behind the Petliurist UNR [Ukrainian People’s Republic movement] but it would be incorrect to explain the revival of Petliurists in the Ukrainian
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