The American historian Jared Makbrayn in the English edition of the Jewish TABLET criticized the policy of the Ukrainian authorities to exalt nationalist organizations operating in the beginning of the XX century.

'In April of this year, there was adopted a resolution on the celebration, on June 28, of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Polesskaya Sich in Olevsk, the Zhitomir region. In the city of Rovno, it is planned to build a new monument honoring Bulba-Borovets. This summer, the Rovno administration organized a bicycle race in memory of the Sich. Olevsk plans to name a park after the Polesskaya Republic, a square after Bulba-Borovets, open a museum dedicated to the Sich, and install a Bulba-Borovets bust there,' lists the historian.

The researcher from Los Angeles reports on previously unknown evidence of destruction, in 1941, of the entire Jewish community of 500 people in Olevsk, Polessie, by the Ukrainian nationalists.

Memories of eyewitnesses of the tragedy, found in the archives and confirmed by the survivors, say that this war crime was the work of militants from the punitive unit "Polesskaya Sich" serving the Nazi invaders.

Its leader and organizer was the "lieutenant general" Taras Bulba-Borovets (his real name was Borovets, and he borrowed the nickname "Bulba" from the Russian writer Nikolay Gogol).

The written evidence by Tevel Trosman and Jacob Shklover and memories of Alexey Makarchuk, who left  for a Soviet partisan unit, still being a teenager, agree in describing one nightmarish detail, namely, that before shooting the community to death, the bandits of the "Polesskaya Sich"  tormented the Jews for the whole summer.

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