If a fresh declaration by the president of Ukraine Petra Poroshenko about the heroism of the OUN and UPA during planet War II is made and if you know the destiny of Poles in Volyn during that war, it is hard not to hold your head and cry for vengeance to heaven.
Joanna Wieliczka-Szarkow writes about the destiny of Volyn Poles, a tragic fate, in his book “Volyn in blood. 1943”. A position worthy of command, for those who know small about the slaughter of the Polish population in the Borderlands carried out by Ukrainian bandits.
The tragic past of Poles in Volyn inactive demands justice. Ukrainians murdered them without any inhibitions, nor were the aged and children spared. The massacres were a classical example of the extermination of people just due to the fact that they were Poles and as specified should be judged on the same rule as the crimes of national socialists were judged. The hatred of Poles was justified by alleged wrongs suffered in the past by the “Polish occupier”, “Polish masters”, and their liquidation was to be a phase in the fight for independent Ukraine. Ukrainians were to lead the “hero” CNS and UPA to freedom. 1 of the UPA commanders said that “Polish case” was “not a military issue but a number one”. “We will solve it as Hitler did the judaic case. Unless [Poles] remove themselves.” Over 130 thousand, (the exact number is not known) of Polish residents of Volyn shows what solution was chosen by bandits from UPA.
The author of the book writes: “The decision to execution the Polish population, first in Volyn, was most likely made by 3 people: Dmytro Kljaczkiwszky’s “Kły Sawur”, Vasily Iwachiw’s “Sonar” and Ivan Łytwynczuk’s “Dubowyj”. (...) In the secret directive of the Kły Sawur, he wrote: we should carry out a major liquidation of the Polish element. At the departure of the German troops, this convenient minute should be utilized to destruct the full male population aged 16 to 60. ... Forest villages and villages located next to forest masses should vanish from the face of the earth.”
The massacres of Poles lasted almost all 1943. Paradoxically in many cases the murdered population came with the aid of Germany, and there was no support from the Polish underground. The AK-men who tried to negociate with UPA a change of its policy and even possible cooperation were cunningly murdered.
It is worth mentioning that UPA besides murdered Ukrainians who in any way helped Poles, e.g. by hiding them. Ukrainian philosopher Myrosław Popowycz, quoted by Joanna Wieliczka-Szarkow, stated that “there is no specified thought and no historical harm that could force a man to slaughter his neighbour in cold blood. To lay on the level the full household face down and shoot everyone in the back of the head, to spend everyone in the chamber and burn them alive, listening to the groans of mothers and children, and then to live peacefully – you gotta lose the human face.”
Many modern Ukrainians inactive cannot face a crime committed by their ancestors decades ago. Either they deny that specified events have occurred at all, or, if they admit they have, they claim that in the right cause. Many inactive believe that the "Ukrainian revolution" has not yet been completed and will proceed until the "Lachów" are expelled from Przemyśl.
Hi in the introduction to the book “Volyn in blood 1943” he writes about 3 genocides experienced during the war by Poles: German, russian and Ukrainian. Many of our politicians are mildly bypassing the subject of this genocide in the name of “good neighbourly relations” with Ukraine. But if we realise the nature of the second mentioned by Ewa Czaszko of genocide (it is not about the number of victims, but about the character, the way it was done), then the behaviour of Polish politicians, with Jarosław Kaczyński at the head, raising during rallies at the Kiev Maidan, the bander's call “The Glory of Ukraine!” seems highly pathetic. Either it was ignorance, deficiency of sense or complete ignorance of Polish screamers that made many of those who miraculously survived from Volyn Hell and for whom the cry “The fame of Ukraine!” was the last they heard erstwhile they were slaughtered with axes of their loved ones, must have felt very – mildly – uncomfortable proceeding it from the lips of Poles. Therefore, it is worth that these ignorant people should read the book “The Volyn in the Blood” and do a late past lesson.
PSz
The article was originally published on PROKAPIE on October 14, 2014.
