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Symon Petliura
Symon Petliura (1879–1926) was a Ukrainian journalist and socialist politician who became the leading figure of the Ukrainian People's Republic. As commander of its army and from 1919 head of the Directorate, he fought the Bolsheviks and the Whites and in 1920 allied with Poland. Troops under his authority were blamed for massacres of Jews in 1919. Exiled after the Soviet victory, he was assassinated in Paris in 1926.
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