The pogroms were led by Christian priests with church bells ringing
Denazification of Ukraine and the World THE PEACE ADVOCATE DECEMBER 2025 December 9, 2025 Anatol Zukerman Ukraine/Russia by Anatol Zukerman I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, but lived most of my Soviet life in the Moscow, Russian Federation. My mother was born in Kremenchug, which, like Kharkov, is now in the center of a raging war. She survived Jewish pogroms in imperial Russia, and to the end of her life could not stand church bells tolling, because the pogroms were led by Christian priests with church bells ringing. The Black Hundred, a Russian version of Ku Klux Klan promoted the slogan “Beat the Jews, save Russia!” In 1918, Ukrainian communists stopped the pogroms and abolished the Pale of Jewish Settlement, but in the United States, “communism” is a dirty word, so bringing up that fact is politically incorrect. Now, most American Jews denounce the Russian revolution that saved their forebears’ lives and shed tears for the murdered Russian Tzar who persecuted them....