Ukraine - The Blackest Chapter in the Russian Civil War

The anti semitism of gregorief and other leaders like him found a ready audience among the ukranian peasants, eager to pin the blame for all their misfortunes on some one. Czar nicholas and the conservative aristocracy were all virulently semitic. They used the jews as scapegoats to deflect from their own massive failings as leaders. But that right wing anti semetism was always matched by left wing anti semitism.