Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kiev synagogue the congregation stampeded because the lights were suddenly extinguished and cries of fire raised. Sixty persons were crushed to death...
...matter of fact, the expedition to Kiev was only one episode in a war which has been going on since December, 1918. The contest started almost as soon as the Polish state came into existence; and as soon as the Germans retired from the occupied district, thus allowing the Bolshevik and the Poles to come in contact. It was started by an invasion of Polish-speaking territory by the Bolsheviks, who at that moment were eager to break through into German territory, and expected to meet little resistance from the newly formed and quite unarmed Poland. Thus...
...first view has received a kind of sanction from what seem to me some very unfair statements of Mr. Lloyd George in which he has accused Poland of being the aggressor. The people who make this charge usually try to prove it by pointing to the Polish expedition to Kiev last May and seem to imagine that the war began with this expedition, and that Poland thereby needlessly and wantonly challenged Russia...