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of manpower and artillery, Red Army
liberated the Left Bank Ukraine from White
Guard (they entered Kharkiv on December,
12). By the end of the year, they occupied
Donbas; Kyiv was occupied on December,
16. Thus, A. Denikin’s army was defeated;
the Communist Soviet power was restored in
Ukraine, except for the Crimea.
November, 15 The Directory decree: “as the Directory
1919 members A. Makarenko and F. Shvets left
abroad, the supreme power of the Republic
affairs is passed to otaman Symon Petliura”.
Thus, all power was given to S. Petliura.
November, 16 Ukrainian authority left its last capital of
1919 Kamyanets-Podilsky, which was occupied by
Polish army.
December, 1-2 The mutiny of otamans Danchenko, Bozhko
1919 and Volokh in Lyubar. They declared S.
Petliura that they should choose one enemy
out of three (Bolsheviks, Denikin’s troops and
Poles) to conclude peace. It was impossible to
fight with all of them simultaneously. They
demanded that the head of Directory passed
the authority to their hands. Saving
themselves from being arrested, they took the
national military treasury and joined
Bolsheviks. S. Petliura was deeply concerned
with events under Lyubar: “Isn’t it the tragedy
of Ukraine that some die from starvation
during cold winter under Lyubar, when the
other rob the dead and escape with the black
conscience of our history, Volokh, to the
enemy, filling the lines of Ukraine' s

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