Bolshevism, against which the newly rising Russia and the volunteer army are fighting? How much courage is necessary to appear publicly with such a circular proclamation in Kiev, which is after all still in the possession of the volunteer army! How degenerate the Kiev labor union must be if after the many acts of destruction which the Bolsheviki have caused in Kiev, they dare to come out openly with such announcements F
We repeat, the "Kievlianin" was the official government organ and the ideal herald of the current policy of the government.
This agitation led to very definite results. The volunteer army was already in a state of decomposition. The great majority of obtuse ordinary officers dreamed of plunder, and in their lust and wanton unrestraint they saw an object of their sadistic and rapacious inclinations in the lives, honor and possessions of the Jews who were left to their mercy, particularly since the official press declared these heroic deeds to be deeds of patriotism.
The pogroms perpetrated by the volunteer army took the following course. As soon as the volunteer army entered a city, one could find everywhere on the walls next to the official communications, proclamations against the Jews, which were almost all alike in form and content — "Underlings of the Red Guard!" "To All" — and called the people to make pogroms (evidently the authorities of the Denikin government simply adopted the method of the tsar's police department, namely to send proclamations for pogroms from their main printing office to the places where they planned to enact them). The careful memorial menin tioned above states that in all places without exception to which the volunteer troops came there invariably took place more or less important, but always systematically carried out excesses, which in the great majority of cases developed into pogroms. "So in Kharkov there were robberies and acts of violence every day. In Yekaterinoslav all Jewish houses in the four most important Jewish streets were destroyed. Many Jews were killed, hundreds of Jewish women and girls were dishonored/*
The volunteer army instituted pogroms in the following places: Sinelnikov, Bespalovka, Losovaya, Mikhailovka, Valki, Kremenchug (350 women violated), Motovilovka, Borispol, Grebyonka, Smela, Korsun, Germanovka, Cherkassy, Makarov, Gorodische, Stepany, Ignatovka, Tripolie, Rossovo, Bielaia Tserkov, Fastov and Kiev.
In Fastov the volunteers searched all the Jewish houses (they overlooked two houses by accident). The furniture was dragged out of the houses or destroyed; women were violated. All imaginable kinds of tortures and cruelties were perpetrated on the Jews. Even children of six weeks were slaughtered. The number of dead amounts to from 1,500 to 1,800. More than 100 houses were burned down. The pogrom in Kiev was also terrible. On the I4th of October the city was again occupied by the Bolsheviki. Two days later they were driven out by the volunteers. Hardly had the city been cleared of the Bolshevist troops when an organized pogrom set in which lasted five days, from the 1 6th to the 2Oth of October. The plundering bands consisted for the most part of soldiers, who went from house to house and robbed, tortured, violated and murdered. The heart-rending cries of the victims were of