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Lyuba Shames-Vishnits, Yehudit Tsurif, and
Zelde Listhoyz.
HaShomer HaTsair was a great force in the
shtetl, but later its influence waned somewhat, for
two reasons. First of all, it was purely a scouting
organization, without any particular political
stamp, except, obviously, for its general Zionist
inclination. Moreover, the Polish powers-that-be
put all kin.ds of obstacles in the way of the efforts
of Jewish youth.
Later, when HaShomer HaTs air evolved into
a party, its program came under the suspicion of
the Polish authorities. By that time the honeymoon
of the Polish democracy was over. The
regime, especially after the Pilsudski revolution,
had become more and more reactionary, more
chauvinistic, and more antagonistic toward the
Jewstherefore HaShomer HaTsair, with its declared
sympathy for the Soviet Union, began to be
looked upon by the Polish authorities as a disloyal
element.
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Police began to spy more diligently upon the
activities of HaShomer HaTsair. They made a
raid once on a meeting held by HaShomer HaTsair
in a little forest near the shtetl. They beat up some
of the young people and arrested the others. Such
acts by the police had a negative effect upon the
growth of this organization.
The second cause was an internal Zionist
one.
As a Zionist scouting organization, HaShomer
HaTsair had the warmest sympathies of all Zionist
parties. At the beginning, it was the sole
darling of Zionist parties everywhere, and they
supported its educational and cultural activities
as well as financially. But when HaShomer
HaTsair became a party, the relationship of other
Zionist parties toward it changed all over the
world, obviously also in Libivne.
And when in 1920-21 the older members of
HaShomer HaTsair formed HeChalutz in Libivne,
almost all the Zionists who had formerly sup-
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