Nahum Gergel
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Controversial and probably never existed person, quoted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his book Two Hundred Years Together. Solzhenitsyn says that "According to Nahum Gergel's 1951 study of the pogroms in Ukraine, out of an estimated 887 mass pogroms, about 40% were perpetrated by the Ukrainian forces led by Symon Petliura". This person is very often quoted as the single "proof" that the Ukrainian National Republic army performed pogroms.
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It is not clear how this study was performed, and why Solzhenitsyn trusts this research. Was this study performed on territory of Soviet Ukraine or outside? Was this study ordered by Soviet authorities?
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