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There were a number of right-wing nationalist and anti-Semitic groups in the Ukraine in 1993–94. Among the most conspicuous were the Organization of the Ukrainian Idealists, based in Lvov, the State Independence of the Ukraine party, and the Ukrainian National Assembly with its strong para-military wing “Ukrainian National Self-Defense” (IMA-UNSO). The OUI managed to organize several mass rallies in Lvov, which attracted more than 2,000 participants each; at the rallies anti-Semitic placards were displayed, and anti-Jewish speeches delivered.
Riots burst out in September 1993 in Vinnitsa, where UNA-UNSO members picketed the offices of the city’s Jewish mayor Dmitrii Dvorkis, whom they accused of being a mafia boss. Following the arrest of the leaders of the organization, ca. 10,000 people reportedly blockaded roads and demanded their release. In 1993–94 Dvorkis, as well as other, Jewish mayors — Odessa’s Eduard Hurvich and Donetsk’s Efim Zviahilsky — became victims of anti-Semitic campaigns.
There were a number of anti-Semitic periodicals in the Ukraine in recent years: Nova Ukraina, Za vilnu Ukrainu [For Free Ukraine], Nezalezhna natsiia [Independent Nation], Holos natsii [The Voice of the Nation], Neskorena natsiia [Unconquered Nation], which in 1994 serialized the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.” The main accusation of the Ukrainian nationalist press against the Jews has been their alleged organizing of the mass famine in the Ukraine in 1932–33. A columnist wrote in Neskorena natsiia in November 1994: “It is difficult to find a people who have done Ukraine more harm than the kikes. Compared to their crimes, all the misdemeanors of Moscow, Warsaw, and Berlin combined pale into insignificance.
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* Historia: Ucrania
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