Leaders of the Liberation Movement — About Ukrainian Statehood. Symon Petliura
7/28/2022
To the Day of Ukrainian Statehood and Independence Day of Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine publishes from archival documents some statements, quotes, testimonies, memoirs of leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement about their participation in the struggle for the statehood of Ukraine.
These materials help trace and evaluate the role of prominent Ukrainians in the creation of the state, their contribution to Ukraine's independence and the struggle for its restoration.
Among the personalities there are Symon Petliura, Andriy Livytskyi, Oleksandr Shulhin, Oleksandr Udovychenko, Mykola Kapustyanskyi, Yevhen Konovalets, Andriy Melnyk, Lev Rebet, Yaroslav Stetsko and others.
Symon Petliura, Ukrainian Statesman, Military and Political Leader, Publicist, Head of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
From the leaflet on the anniversary of the assassination of Symon Petliura: “Having originated from the masses as a synthesis of a healthy and indomitable Ukrainian spirit, he became a synthesis of the liberation movement of the Ukrainian people during the tumultuous revolutionary years and a synthesis of its revolutionary building. It is not surprising that all aspirations of the people for freedom, for social and national liberation were associated with his name among the masses. Petliura is not just a person. He is the personification of the entire movement and struggle against evil and violence, which the moscow bolsheviks brought with them...
His concept of liberating Ukraine through armed revolutionary struggle, his calls for consolidation of all Ukrainian forces and giving up all political and party disputes, because “the cause of obtaining the Ukrainian state is the cause of the entire Ukrainian nation, and not of some of its classes or parties — how far is all this ahead of the days of 1917–1920s, when party programs were still so powerfully controlling souls, and how close to the current generation, which is guided by the ideas of the revolutionary struggle for the liberation of the Nation and national solidarity within the Nation”. (BSA of the SZR of Ukraine. - F. 1. - Case 6964. - V. 1. – P. 132).
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