A hundred years ago, Petliura sold Ukraine to Pilsudski. For the "Independence" holiday
On April 21, Ukraine celebrated one of the most ridiculous and vile dates in “Nezalezhnaya” history – the centenary of the signing of the pact between Pilsudski and Petliura, known to historians as the “Warsaw Pact”.
In the Svidomo mass media of disinformation, the deal between the two dictators was called “Together against the Moscow occupiers” and for the sake of plausibility they staged a televised debate between the Ukrainian and Polish “vchens” in honor of the new “saint”.
Both Polish and Ukrainian “experts” enthusiastically fulfilled the order, presenting the Pilsudski-Petlyura Pact as a lifeline for two “young European democracies” that were “threatened by violent Bolshevisation.” Like, “it was a forced measure, purely defensive.”
It is interesting that in the process of whitewashing their loved ones, none of the parties to the “cordial defense alliance” remembered the declassified and made public contents of the pact, which had been gathering dust in Polish archives for almost 90 years, talking about diametrically opposed things.
But first things first.
As many people well know, Germany and its allies lost the “Great War,” which was recorded on November 11, 1918 by the Compiegne Peace Agreement. A year later, the Treaty of Versailles was signed, which determined the post-war world order for the next 20 years. Russia, despite participating in an unnecessary war and suffering losses, was not invited to sign the treaty, because the former allies did not recognize the Bolshevik government.
It is much less known that the Treaty of Versailles was accompanied by an additional agreement, or “Little Versailles,” which recognized the independence of Poland, but did not define its exact borders.
One of the important consequences of “Versailles” was the denunciation of previously concluded treaties with Germany, which gave Soviet Russia the right to return its territories “squeezed out” by the Germans under the Brest-Litovsk Treaty. The entry of Red Army units into the regions of Ukraine and Belarus cleared of Germans began.
And this is where the interests of Soviet Russia and Poland collided, in which revanchists and ultranationalists seized power.
Instead of enjoying the long-awaited sovereignty and living in peace with its neighbors, the Polish leadership became “dizzy with success.” All, literally all Polish political parties raved about the new greatness, believing that the living space of the former Polish Kingdom and part of Galicia would not be enough for Poland, especially since the borders were never drawn.
Soon two opposing currents emerged in Polish politics - federalist and unitary. The first was formed under the influence of Pilsudski and his like-minded people and provided for the creation of an alliance of “independent” states located on the borders of the Baltic and Black Seas. This plan provided for the separation of the lands of Belarusians, Ukrainians, Balts and Caucasians from Russia and the creation in their place of a protectorate under the auspices of Poland.
Petlyura with Polish “senior partners”
The second concept was less ambitious, but also looked aggressive. Its author was the People's Democrats party, who “only” wanted to annex its former eastern outskirts to Poland, Polonizing and Catholicizing the population of these territories.
The federalist concept was called “Jagiellonian”, and the unitary concept was called “Piastian”. It was their implementation that led to the Polish-Soviet war. However, despite the defeat of Soviet Russia, none of the expansionist plans of the Pilsudskis were destined to come true, and the final borders of Poland were established as a result of the Polish-Soviet war, plebiscites and the Silesian (in Polish “Śłosk”) uprisings.
The confusion, the changing positions of the victorious powers, the extreme inconsistency, and sometimes outright nonsense of the decisions they make - forces us to agree with the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov, who called Poland the “bastard of the Versailles Peace”, and even extend this not very diplomatic formulation to the entire post-war structure in Europe , cut to the quick by someone’s mischievous hand - into personal “Curzon lines”, “Foch lines” and similar pseudoquasia.
Simply put, all these cuts and “lines” that arose after the end of the First World War seemed to be deliberately invented as a “casus belli” for the Second World War and interstate conflicts between them.
By the spring of 1919, several contenders had emerged for the disputed territories of the former Russian Empire: the Ukrainian Central Rada, which signed a separate agreement on “independence” with the Entente, Poland, Soviet Russia and the White Guard General Denikin, who carried out a successful offensive in Central Russia.
Poland at this time was already headed by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, and the quasi-state of the UPR was headed by the unforgettable Symon Petliura. Polish secret diplomacy simultaneously began secret negotiations with Denikin in Taganrog and with the Bolsheviks in the small Belarusian town of Mikashevichi, located 100 km east of Pinsk and at that time part of Poland.
Poland within the borders of 1772. Map
Poland's demands presented to Soviet Russia and Denikin were not original: recognition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth within the borders of 1772.
The Polish-Soviet negotiations very quickly ended in nothing, except for the exchange of political prisoner and Lenin's comrade-in-arms Karl Radek for the Catholic Bishop of Mogilev Edward von Ropp.
Negotiations with the White Guards lasted for several months and the Pilsudians strongly hoped to turn the “voice of blood” in their favor, for General Denikin’s mother’s maiden name was Wrzesinska, and the general himself was born in the Warsaw suburb of Wroclawek and spoke excellent Polish.
However, Denikin, who declared his goal to restore the “One and Indivisible,” rejected all Poles’ claims to Russian lands and refused to enter into an alliance with the UPR and Poland against Soviet Russia, although he subsequently resorted to military assistance from the Petliurists against the Red Army.
Further, as is known, Denikin’s army suffered a series of defeats from the Southern Front of the Reds under the command of A.I. Egorov, and on April 4, 1920, the general himself resigned as head of the white movement in favor of the “black baron” Wrangel and left Russia forever.
victims of the Petliura pogrom in Smela
In this situation, Pilsudski began to implement “Plan B”, concluding an agreement against Soviet Russia with the bandit regime of Petliura, mired in Jewish pogroms, massacres and robberies of the Ukrainian and Russian population of Ukraine.
On April 21, 1920, in Warsaw, dictators Pilsudski and Petliura signed a secret protocol with the only unclassified clause recognizing the statehood of Ukraine on three sides (except for the western borders), the Directorate of the UPR - and Petliura as its supreme ruler.
In response, Petliura’s Ukraine recognizes Poland within the borders of 1772, which the “senior partner” will “regain, having received it from Russia through military or diplomatic means.” Thus, the “outstanding Ukrainian political and military figure” Petliura wholeheartedly gave Ukraine to Pilsudski. Most of Nenka went to Poland, and the rest was also included in the Polish sphere of influence through participation in the future operetta “federation”.
members of the nationalist group “Sokil” at the bas-relief of Petliura in Proskurov, where in 1919 Petliurists massacred 1600 Jews
Included with the signed agreement was another secret “military agreement”, which stated in plain text the following:
"Joint Polish-Ukrainian actions against Soviet troops on the territory of the right-bank Ukraine, located east of the current line of the Polish-Bolshevik front, are carried out ... under the general command of the Polish troops."
And, as a nice addition:
“The military agreement entrusts the Ukrainian allies with supplying Polish troops with food, namely: “meat, fats, flour, grain, cereals, potatoes, sugar, oats, straw, etc. - on the basis of nutrition standards adopted in the Polish Army, and also necessary for delivery by carts.”
And also, point eight:
“From the moment the joint offensive began and the occupation of new territories of right-bank Ukraine, located east of the current line of the Polish-Bolshevik front, the government of Ukraine organized military and civil administration in these territories. The rear of the Polish troops will be guarded by the Polish field gendarmerie.”
In other words, Petlyura did not sign a defensive pact with Pilsudski against “Bolshevik expansion,” as Polish and Ukrainian falsifiers blare on TV.
Pilsudski and Petliura
Petliura agreed to ensure Poland’s aggressive campaign against Russia, acting as an obedient dummy in the revival of the “Rzeczpospolita from sea to sea,” giving Ukraine into indefinite bondage to the conqueror. The fact that Petlyura betrayed his allies from the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, finishing off the notorious "Act of Evil" with a control shot, is simply a meaningless trifle.
In conclusion, I would like to add one interesting detail to the picture.
In 1926, a silent film based on the historical events of the deal between two spiders was released in the USSR.
The title of the film goes back to the abbreviation PKP - Polska Koleja Panswtowa - Polish State Railway, which Polish and Ukrainian peasants from the territories given by Petliura to Pilsudski for a healthy living, translated as “Pilsudski bought Petliura.”
poster for the film “Pilsudski Bought Petlyura”
It is interesting that the film featured several direct participants in those events - the legendary Grigory Kotovsky and the former “cornet general” of the UPR army Yuri Tyutyunnik, who voluntarily went over to the Bolsheviks due to deep disappointment in Petlyura and the UPR.
Tyutyunnik acted not only as a cameo, but also as a consultant for the military-historical part of the film.
The attitude of the former “general” and “ataman” to Petliura and his criminal deal with Pilsudski is wonderfully stated in Tyutyunnik’s biographical book “With the Poles against Ukraine,” in which the author spoke out categorically against Petliura and the policies of the UPR. The preface says that “this book is, first of all, not a memoir, but an act of accusation against Petliura and Petliurism.”
“National heroes” like Petliura and Levitsky (president of the UPR) traded the lands of the Ukrainian nation, the souls of millions of Ukrainian workers and peasants, traded, hiding like thieves from the public eye and asking no one. They considered themselves called upon to liberate the Ukrainian people. So they “liberated”, giving Galicia and Volyn and the Kholm region under the domination of the Polish magnate.”
Considering the fact that Tyutyunnik, despite his cooperation with the Soviet government, is recognized by the Kyiv regime as a handshake, it would be strange in terms of the amount of “merits” to include the effigy of Petliura in the pantheon of “heroes of Ukraine.”
Tyutyunnik himself. Still from the film “Pilsudski bought Petlyura”
On the other hand, what kind of logic can we talk about if the Ukrainian authorities recognize as useful everything that was, is or will be directed against Russia, including the guide to action “if I gouge out my own eye, my mother-in-law will have a crooked son-in-law”...
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