As a result of the pogrom in Proskuriv, the international image of Ukraine suffered during a crucial moment in the country's struggle for independence. Banks of most European countries, with the exception of Germany, froze accounts owned by the Ukrainian government, and military supplies for the Ukrainian army were arrested. As a reaction to the massacre, the Jewish community of the United States demanded from president
Woodrow Wilson to break all diplomatic relations with the Ukrainian People's Republic. The mention of the pogrom was brought up during the
Schwartzbard's trial in Paris, France. Reportedly, the evidential proof of an order by
Ukrainian People's Republic head Symon Petliura himself was discussed during the proceedings. The actual cable was said to have been burned by a Jew fearing death. According to Canadian historian
Henry Abramson the cable is probably a forgery, and Petliura himself was known to openly condemn pogroms. The town of Proskuriv renamed Khmelnytskyi in 1954 during the
Stalinist era, in spite of the fact that
Bohdan Khmelnytsky himself committed a terrible
pogrom there against the Jews already in the 17th century. ==Notes==