 White Russian troops led by Denikin staged pogroms against Jews in practically every town he captured.In Ukraine at this time, murders of Jews took place on an unprecedented scale, second only to the Holocaust years of World War II.Isaac Babel, a war correspondent embedded with the Red Army, in his 1920 diary wrote down many first-hand accounts of atrocities committed by both sides against Jews (Most of them were retreating Red Army in Ukrainian Front).