Crimes of Bandera in WWII. Bandera atrocities
In Ukraine, 5 million 300 thousand civilians died at the hands of the Nazis, 2 million 300 thousand able-bodied Ukrainian women and men were deported to Germany.
At the hands of Bandera’s punitive forces, 850 thousand Jews, 220 thousand Poles, more than 400 thousand Soviet prisoners of war and another 500 thousand Ukrainian civilians died. 20 thousand soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and law enforcement agencies were killed, approximately 4 - 5 thousand of their own “soldiers” of the UPA, not enough “active and nationally conscious”.
June 30, 1941. The Nachtigal battalion, under the command of R. Shukhevych, burst into the city of Lviv at dawn together with German advanced units and in the first days destroyed more than 3 thousand Lviv Poles, including 70 world-famous scientists. And within a week, the Nachtigal battalion of R. Shukhevych brutally destroyed about 7 thousand civilians, in particular children, women, and the elderly. In the courtyard of the St. Yura Cathedral, Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky held a service in honor of the “invincible German army and its main leader Adolf Hitler.” With the blessing of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the mass extermination of civilians in Ukraine began by Bandera, Nachtigalevites, Upovites and soldiers of the SS “Galicia” division. 
R. Shukhevych.
Created at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War by an Abwehr agent, a member of the Chernivtsi regional branch of the OUN Voinovsky, the Bukovinsky kuren (about 500 people) arrived in Kiev on September 22, 1941, where from September 28 he took part in the mass murder of innocent people of different nationalities in BABIEM YARU. Then 350 thousand people were deprived of their lives, including 160 thousand Jews, of which 50 thousand were children! And he not only took part, but was the main perpetrator of this bloody massacre. For these atrocities and cannibalism, for his zeal in serving fascism, Voinovsky was awarded the rank of SS major.
Among the 1,500 punitive forces at Babi Yar there were 1,200 policemen from the OUN and only 300 Germans! 
At the beginning of 1942, the Nachtigal battalion was reorganized into the 201st SS police battalion and, led by Captain Shukhevych, was sent to Belarus to fight the partisans. It was the Nachtigalites who wiped off the face of the earth the Belarusian village of KHATYN and the Volyn village of KORBELISY, in which they killed and burned over 2,800 civilians, mostly children, women, the elderly and the sick.
On February 9, 1943, Bandera members from the gang of Pyotr Netovich, under the guise of Soviet partisans, entered the Polish village of Parosle near Vladimirets, Rivne region. The peasants, who had previously provided assistance to the partisans, warmly welcomed the guests. Having eaten their fill, the bandits began to rape women and girls. Before being killed, their chests, noses and ears were cut off. Then they began to torture the rest of the village residents. Men were deprived of their genitals before death. They finished off with ax blows to the head. 
Two teenagers, the Gorshkevich brothers, who tried to call real partisans for help, had their bellies cut open, their legs and arms cut off, their wounds generously covered with salt, leaving them half-dead to die in the field. In total, 173 people were brutally tortured in this village, including 43 children.
In one of the houses, on the table, among scraps and unfinished bottles of moonshine, lay a dead one-year-old child, whose naked body was nailed to the boards of the table with a bayonet. The monsters stuffed a half-eaten pickled cucumber into his mouth.
March 1943. In the outskirts of Huta Stepanska, Stepan commune, Kostopil county, Ukrainian nationalists deceived 18 Polish girls, who were killed after rape. The bodies of the girls were laid next to each other, and a ribbon was placed on them with the inscription: “This is how frogs should die.” 
On March 7, 1943, in the Terazha district (Lutsk district), Bandera’s supporters captured several Polish children in a pasture, who were killed in the nearby forest.
On May 5, 1943, in Lipniki (Kostopol district), the Upovites smashed the head of three-year-old Stasik Pavlyuk against the wall, holding him by the legs.
On June 8, 1943, in the village of Chertozh-Vodnik (Rovno district), the Upovites, in the absence of their parents’ home, muzzled three Bronevsky children: Vladislav, 14 years old, Elena, 10 years old, and Henry, 12 years old.
On July 11, 1943, during the service of God, the village of Osmigovichi was attacked by Banderaites and killed the believers. A week later, our village was attacked... Small children were thrown into the well, and large children were locked in the basement and filled up. One Bandera member, holding the baby by the legs, hit his head against the wall. The mother of that baby screamed until she was bayoneted.
July 11, 1943 Biskupichi village, Mikulichi commune, Vladimir-Volynsky district. Ukrainian nationalists committed mass murder by driving residents into a school building. At the same time, the family of Vladislav Yaskula was brutally murdered. The executioners burst into the house while everyone was sleeping. They killed the parents and five children with axes, put them all together, covered them with straw from mattresses and set them on fire.
On July 11, in Kalusovo (Vladimir district), during a massacre, the Upovites muzzled a two-month-old child, Joseph Fili, tore him by the legs, and put parts of his body on the table. 
July 12, 1943 Colony Maria Volya, commune Mikulichi, Vladimir-Volynsky district. At about 15.00, Ukrainian nationalists surrounded her and began to muzzle the Poles, using firearms, axes, knives, pitchforks and sticks. About 200 people (45 families) died. Some of the people, about 30 people, were thrown alive into a well and there they were killed with stones. Those who ran were caught up and finished off. During this massacre, the Ukrainian Didukh was ordered to kill a Polish woman and two children. When he did not comply with the order, they killed him, his wife and two children. Eighteen children aged from 3 to 12 years old, who were hiding in the grain fields, were caught by the criminals, put on a row cart, taken to the village of Chestny Krest and there they were killed, pierced with pitchforks, chopped with axes. The action was led by Kvasnitsky.
On August 29-30, 1943, by order of the commander of the so-called OUN military district "Oleg" on
On the territory of the Kovel, Lyuboml and Turin districts of the Volyn region, several hundred UPA people under the leadership of Yuri Stelmashchuk slaughtered the entire Polish population. They plundered all their property and burned their farms. In total, in these areas on August 29 and 30, 1943, more than 15 thousand people were massacred and shot by Bandera, among whom were many elderly people, women and children 
They drove the entire population into one place, surrounded it and began the massacre. After there was not a single living person left, they dug large holes, threw all the corpses into them and covered them with earth. To hide the traces of this terrible action, we lit fires at the graves. So they completely destroyed dozens of small villages and hamlets..."
In mid-September 1943, UPA gangs in the Gorokhovsky and former Senkivichsky districts of the Volyn region killed and stabbed to death about 3 thousand residents of Polish nationality. It is characteristic that one of the UPA groups was led by a priest of the autocephalous church, who was in the OUN, who absolved the sins of his flock for the atrocities committed. People were laid on the ground in rows, face down, and then shot. Once again laying out people for execution, the Bandera man shot at a 3-4 year old boy. The bullet blew off the top of his skull. The child stood up, began to scream and run this way and that, with his brain open and pulsating. The Bandera man continued to shoot, and the child ran around until another bullet calmed him down...
On November 11, 1943, by order of commander Laidaki, one hundred (company. Author) led by Nedotypolsky goes to liquidate the Polish colony of Khvaschevata. The entire colony was burned, 10 Poles were killed... 45 horses were taken... 
In the fall of 1943, soldiers of the “army of immortals” killed dozens of Polish children in the village of Lozovaya, Ternopil district. In the alley, they “decorated” the trunk of each tree with the corpse of a child killed before.
According to Western researcher Alexander Korman, corpses were nailed to trees in such a way as to create the appearance of a “wreath.”
Yu.H. from Poland: “In March 1944, our village of Guta Shklyana, commune Lopatin, was attacked by Bandera, among them was one named Didukh from the village of Oglyadov. They killed five people and cut them in half. A minor was raped."
March 16, 1944 Stanislavshchina: group “L” and group “Garkusha” in the amount of 30 people destroyed 25 Poles...
On March 19, 1944, group “L” and a district militant group of 23 people carried out an action in the village. Zelenivka (Tovmachchina). 13 farms were burned, 16 Poles were killed. 
On March 28, 1944, Sulima’s group of 30 people destroyed 18 Poles...
On March 29, 1944, Semyon’s group liquidated 12 Poles in Pererosl and burned 18 farms...
April 1, 1944 Ternopil region: killed in the village. Beloe 19 Poles, 11 farms burned
April 2, 1944 Ternopil region: nine Poles, two Jewish women who were in the service of the Poles were killed...
On April 5, 1944, the Zaliznyak district group held an action in Porogi and Yablintsi. Six homes were burned, 16 Poles were killed...
April 5, 1944 Kholmshchyna: the groups “Galaida” and “Tigers” carried out a liquidation action against the colonies: Gubynok, Lupche, Polediv, Zharnyki... In addition, the self-defense group “Lisa” destroyed the colony of Marysin and Radkiv, and the group “Orla” - Polish colonies in Riplyn. Several dozen Polish soldiers and many civilians were killed.” 
On April 9, 1944, Nechay’s group liquidated in the village. Pasichnaya 25 Poles...
On April 11, 1944, Dovbush’s group liquidated 81 Poles in Rafaylov.
April 14, 1944 Ternopil region: 38 Poles killed...
April 15, 1944 in the village. Obese 66 Poles were killed, 23 farms were burned...
On April 16, 1944, Dovbush’s group liquidated in the village. Green 20 Poles...”
On April 27, 1944, the district combat killed 55 Polish men and five women in the village of Ulatsko-Seredkevichi. At the same time, about 100 farms were burned... And further in this report, in detail, with accounting accuracy, figures are indicated, more precisely, detailed statements about the number of Poles liquidated by the UPA group: “Potoki - 3 (places), Lyubich-Koleitsy - 3 (places. )..., Lyubich - 10 (local)..., Tyagliv - 15 (women, local) and 44 (non-local)..., Zabirie - 30 (local and unknown), Rechki - 15 ( local and unknown)".
April 17, 1944 Khovkovshchina: the UPA group (Gromova) and Dovbush’s militants destroyed the Polish stronghold of Stanislivok. At the same time, about 80 Polish men were liquidated
April 19, 1944 Lyubachivshchyna: the UPA group “Avengers” destroyed the Polish village of Rutka, the village was burned and 80 Poles were liquidated...
From April 30, 1944 - to May 12, 1944 in the village. Glibowicz killed 42 Poles; near the villages: Mysyova - 22, Mestechko - 36, Zarubina - 27, Bechas - 18, Nedilyska - 19, Grabnik -19, Galina - 80, Zhabokrug - 40 Poles. All actions were carried out by the district fighting with the help of the UPA "Eagles"
In the summer of 1944, a hundred “Igors” came across a camp of gypsies in the Paridub forest who had fled persecution by the Nazis. The bandits robbed them and brutally killed them. They cut them with saws, strangled them with nooses, and chopped them into pieces with axes. In total, 140 Roma were killed, including 67 children. 
One night, Bandera’s men brought a whole family from the village of Volkovya to the forest. They mocked unfortunate people for a long time. Seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut open her stomach, tore out the fetus from it, and instead stuffed a live rabbit into it.
One night, bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovaya. Over 100 peaceful peasants were killed within 1.5 hours. A bandit with an ax in his hands burst into Nastya Dyagun’s hut and hacked to death her three sons. The youngest, four-year-old Vladik, had his arms and legs cut off. In Makukha’s hut, the killers found two children, three-year-old Ivasik and ten-month-old Joseph. The ten-month-old child, seeing the man, was delighted and laughingly stretched out her arms to him, showing her four teeth. But the ruthless bandit slashed the baby’s head with a knife, and cut off the head of his brother Ivasik with an ax.
After the soldiers of the “army of immortals” left the village, dead bodies were found on the bed, on the floor and on the stove in the hut of the peasant Kuzi. Splashes of human brain and blood froze on the walls and ceiling. The Bandera ax ended the lives of six innocent children: the eldest of them was 9 years old, and the youngest was 3 years old. 
C.B. from the USA: “In Podlesye, as the village was called, Bandera’s men muzzled four from the family of miller Petrushevsky, while 17-year-old Adolfina was dragged along a rocky rural road until she died.”
F.B. from Canada: “Bandera’s men came to our yard, grabbed our father and cut off his head with an ax, and pierced our sister with a stake. Mom, seeing this, died of a broken heart.”
Yu.V. from the UK: “My brother’s wife was Ukrainian. Because she married a Pole, 18 Bandera members raped her. She never came out of this shock... she drowned herself in the Dniester.”
At night, a village girl of seventeen years old, or even younger, was brought into the forest from the village of Khmyzovo. Her fault was that she, along with other village girls, went to dances when there was a military unit of the Red Army in the village. “Kubik” saw the girl and asked “Varnak” for permission to personally interrogate her. He demanded that she admit that she “walked” with the soldiers. The girl swore that this did not happen. “I’ll check it now,” “Kubik” grinned, sharpening a pine stick with a knife. A moment later, he jumped up to the prisoner and began poking her between her legs with the sharp end of a stick until he drove a pine stake into the girl’s genitals.
Bandera’s men tortured the same young girl Motrya Panasyuk for a long time, and then tore her heart out of her chest.
Thousands of Ukrainians died a terrible, martyr’s death. 
R. Shukhevych’s henchmen from the Security Service waged a merciless fight against Soviet partisans and underground fighters. In confirmation, we present another document from the Rivne archive:
“October 21, 1943 ... 7 Bolshevik intelligence officers were captured who were going from Kamenets-Podolsk to Polesie. After an investigation, evidence was received that these were Bolshevik intelligence officers, and they
destroyed... On October 28, 1943, in the village of Bogdanovka, Koretsky district, a teacher-informer was destroyed... In the village of Trostyanets, 1 house was burned and a family was thrown into the fire alive... Headquarters. 10/31/43 Chief R. 1 V. Winter.”
Nurse Yashchenko D.P. “Soon we witnessed how the OUN completely cut out entire hospitals, which at first were left in the rear as before - without guards. They cut out stars on the bodies of the wounded, cut off ears, tongues, and genitals. They mocked the defenseless liberators of their land from the Nazis as they wanted. And now we are told that these so-called “patriots” of Ukraine fought only with the “punishers” of the NKVD. All this is a lie! What kind of patriots are they?! This is a rabid beast.
A policeman from the village of Ratno, Volyn region, A. Koshelyuk, during his service with the Germans, personally shot about a hundred civilians. He took part in the destruction of the population of the village of Kortelis, which was popularly called “Ukrainian Lidice”. Later he left for the UPA. He was known to the police and UPA under the nickname Dorosh.
Roman Shukhevych: “... The OUN acts in such a way that everyone who knows the rule of the Radyans will be destitute. Don’t slur, but physically deteriorate! There is no need to be afraid that people will curse us for our cruelty. Even if half of the 40 million Ukrainian population loses, there’s nothing terrible about it...” 
Bandera's men, who perfected the skills of executioners in the German police units and SS troops, literally refined their art of tormenting defenseless people. An example for them was Chuprinka (R. Shukhevych), who in every possible way encouraged such activities.
When the whole world was healing the wounds inflicted on humanity by the most terrible of all previous wars, Shukhevych’s thugs in Western Ukrainian lands took the lives of more than 80 thousand people. The overwhelming majority of those killed were peaceful people of civilian professions, far from politics. A significant percentage of those killed at the hands of nationalist murderers were innocent children and old people.
In the village of Svatovo, they well remember the four girl teachers who were tortured by Shukhevych’s henchmen. Because they were from the Soviet Donbass! 
Raisa Borzilo, teacher, p. Pervomaisk. Before her execution, nationalists accused her of promoting the Soviet system at school. Bandera's men gouged out her eyes alive, cut out her tongue, then threw a wire noose around her neck and dragged her into a field.
Thousands of similar examples can be given.
This is what one of the organizers of the genocide on the lands of Western Ukraine, the commander of the UPA group Fyodor Vorobets, said after his detention by law enforcement agencies:
“...I do not deny that under my leadership a large number of atrocities were committed against... the civilian population, not to mention the mass extermination of OUN-UPA members suspected of collaborating with Soviet authorities... Suffice it to say that in one Sarnensky superdistrict, in the areas: Sarnensky, Bereznovsky, Klesovsky, Rokitnyansky, Dubrovetsky, Vysotsky and other districts of the Rivne region and in two districts of the Pinsk region of the Belarusian SSR, gangs and SB militants subordinate to me, according to the reports I received, in 1945 alone six thousand Soviet citizens..."
(Criminal case of F. Vorobets. Stored in the SBU Directorate for the Volyn region). 
The result of the exhumation of the victims of the massacre of Poles located in the villages of Ostrowki and Vola Ostrovetska, carried out on August 17 - 22, 1992, committed by the monsters of the OUN - UPA - The total number of victims in the two listed villages is 2,000 Poles.
In accordance with the norms of the International Tribunal, such acts are qualified as war crimes and crimes against humanity, and as having no statute of limitations!!!
The actions of Bandera’s followers can only be called GENOCIDE against humanity, and is it worth recalling that the hands of bandits from the UPA were stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Belarusians and Russians killed during the establishment of the “new world order” in Ukraine. Monuments to the victims of Bandera's GENOCIDE should be erected in many Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian cities! It is necessary to publish the book “In memory of the victims of GENOCIDE who died at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists and Banderaites.” 
The main organizer of the genocide of Poles and Jews was Chuprinka (R. Shukhevych), who issued a special order that read:
“Treat the Jews the same way as the Poles and Gypsies: destroy mercilessly, spare no one... Take care of doctors, pharmacists, chemists, nurses; keep them under guard... The Jews used for digging bunkers and building fortifications are to be quietly liquidated upon completion of the work...”
(Prus E. Holokost po banderowsku. Wroclaw, 1995). 
The souls of the innocent victims cry out for a fair trial of the brutal murderers - Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA!
The crimes of the OUN-UPA have no statute of limitations.
The blogger http://komandante-07.livejournal.com/ recently published the most interesting documents, testifying to the atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists from the OUN-UPA against the Poles in the 1940s. True evidence that European and American politicians and officials who support the Kyiv junta are now trying their best not to notice, essentially the regime of the descendants of those fascist Ukrainian radicals who flooded Eastern Europe with blood 70 years ago. Look, who can, show this to the Europeans and Americans - who they brought to power in Kyiv and to whom they are ready to provide military assistance! This is madness…
And of course, the most inexplicable absurdity is that Poland, as the country most affected by the OUN-UPA, now openly supports the descendants of Ukrainian radicals, the very same ones who, less than a century ago, tortured and killed thousands of Poles - women, children and the elderly! Is it possible that the historical memory of the Polish people no longer works or have national wounds healed after a terrible tragedy in just 70 years!?
In the foreground are the children - Janusz Bielawski, 3 years old, son of Adele; Roman Bielawski, 5 years old, son of Czeslawa, as well as Jadwiga Bielawska, 18 years old and others. These listed Polish victims are the result of a massacre committed by the OUN-UPA.
LIPNIKI, Kostopil County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943.
The corpses of Poles - victims of the massacre committed by the OUN - UPA - were brought for identification and burial. Behind the fence stands Jerzy Skulski, who saved a life thanks to the firearm he had (visible in the photo). 
A two-handed saw is good, but takes a long time. The ax is faster. The picture shows a Polish family hacked to death by Bandera in Matsiev (Lukovo), February 1944. There is something lying on a pillow in the far corner. It's hard to see from here. 
And there lie severed human fingers. Before their deaths, Bandera's followers tortured their victims.
LIPNIKI, Kostopil County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943.
The central fragment of a mass grave of Poles - victims of the Ukrainian massacre committed by the OUN - UPA (OUN - UPA) - before the funeral near the People's House.
KATARZYNÓWKA, Lutsk County, Lutsk Voivodeship. 7/8 May 1943.
There are three children on the plan: two sons of Piotr Mekal and Aneli from Gwiazdowski - Janusz (3 years old) with broken limbs and Marek (2 years old), bayoneted, and in the middle lies the daughter of Stanislav Stefaniak and Maria from Boyarchuk - Stasia (5 years old) with a cut and open belly and insides out, as well as broken limbs.
VLADINOPOL (WŁADYNOPOL), region, Vladimir County, Lutsk Voivodeship. 1943.
In the photo, a murdered adult woman named Shayer and two children are Polish victims of Bandera’s terror, attacked in the house of the OUN-UPA.
Demonstration of the photograph designated W - 3326, thanks to the archive.
One of the two Kleshchinsky families in Podyarkov was martyred by the OUN-UPA on August 16, 1943. The photo shows a family of four - spouses and two children. The victims' eyes were gouged out, they were hit on the head, their palms were burned, they tried to chop off their upper and lower limbs, as well as their hands, they inflicted puncture wounds all over their bodies, etc.
PODJARKÓW, Bobrka County, Lwów Voivodeship. August 16, 1943.
Kleshchinska, a member of a Polish family in Podyarkov - a victim of an OUN-UPA attack. The result of the ax blow of the attacker, who tried to cut off the right arm and ear, as well as the torment caused, is a round puncture wound on the left shoulder, a wide wound on the forearm of the right hand, probably from cauterization.
PODJARKÓW, Bobrka County, Lwów Voivodeship. August 16, 1943.
View inside the house of the Polish Kleshchinsky family in Podyarkov after the attack by OUN-UPA terrorists on August 16, 1943. The photograph shows ropes, called “krepulets” by Bandera’s followers, used for sophisticated infliction of torture and strangulation of Polish victims. 
January 22, 1944, a woman with 2 children (Polish Popel family) were killed in the village of Busche
LIPNIKI, Kostopol County, Lutsk Voivodeship. March 26, 1943. View before the funeral. Polish victims of the night massacre committed by the OUN - UPA were brought to the People's House.
OSTRÓWKI and WOLA OSTROWIECKA, Luboml County, Lutsk Voivodeship. August 1992.
The result of the exhumation of victims of the massacre of Poles located in the villages of Ostrowki and Volya Ostrowiecka, carried out on August 17 - 22, 1992, committed by OUN-UPA terrorists. Ukrainian sources from Kyiv from 1988 report the total number of victims in the two listed villages as 2,000 Poles.
Photo: Dziennik Lubelski, Magazyn, nr. 169, Wyd. A., 28 - 30 VIII 1992, s. 9, za: VHS - Produkcja OTV Lublin, 1992.
BŁOŻEW GÓRNA, Dobromil County, Lwów Voivodeship. November 10, 1943.
On the eve of November 11 - the People's Day of Independence - the UPA attacked 14 Poles, in particular the Sukhaya family, using various cruelties. The plan shows the murdered Maria Grabowska (maiden name Suhai), 25 years old, with her 3-year-old daughter Kristina. The mother was bayoneted, and the daughter had a broken jaw and a lacerated abdomen.
The photo was published thanks to the victim’s sister, Helena Kobezhitskaya.
LATACZ, Zaliszczyk County, Tarnopol Voivodeship. December 14, 1943.
One of the Polish families - Stanislav Karpyak in the village of Latach, killed by a UPA gang of twelve people. Six people died: Maria Karpyak - wife, 42 years old; Josef Karpiak - son, 23 years old; Vladislav Karpyak - son, 18 years old; Zygmunt or Zbigniew Karpiak - son, 6 years old; Sofia Karpyak - daughter, 8 years old and Genovef Chernitska (nee Karpyak) - 20 years old. Zbigniew Czernicki, a one-and-a-half-year-old wounded child, was hospitalized in Zalishchyky. Visible in the photo is Stanislav Karpyak, who escaped because he was absent.
POŁOWCE, region, Chortkiv county, Ternopil voivodeship. January 16 - 17, 1944.
Forest near Jagielnitsa, called Rosohach. The process of identifying 26 corpses of Polish residents of the village of Polovetse killed by the UPA. The names of the victims are known. Occupation German authorities officially established that the victims were stripped naked and brutally tortured and tortured. The faces were bloodied due to cutting off noses, ears, cutting necks, gouging out eyes and strangulation with ropes, the so-called lassos.
BUSZCZE, Berezhany County, Ternopil Voivodeship. January 22, 1944.
On the plan, one of the victims of the massacre is Stanislav Kuzev, 16 years old, tortured by the UPA. We see a ripped open stomach, as well as puncture wounds - a wide one and a smaller round one. On a critical day, Bandera’s men burned several Polish courtyards and brutally killed at least 37 Poles, including 7 women and 3 small children. 13 people were injured.
CHALUPKI (CHAŁUPKI), settlement of the village of Barszczowice, Lwów County, Lwów Voivodeship. February 27 - 28, 1944.
A fragment of Polish courtyards in Chalupki, burned by UPA terrorists after the murder of 24 residents and robbery of movable property.
MAGDALÓWKA, Skalat County, Ternopil Voivodeship.
Katarzyna Horwath from Hably, 55 years old, mother of the Roman Catholic priest Jan Horvath.
View from 1951 after plastic surgery. UPA terrorists almost completely cut off her nose, as well as her upper lip, knocked out most of her teeth, gouged out her left eye and seriously damaged her right eye. On that tragic March night in 1944, other members of this Polish family died a cruel death, and their property was stolen by the attackers, such as clothes, bed linen and towels.
BIŁGORAJ, Lubelskie Voivodeship. February - March 1944.
View of the district town of Bilgoraj, burned in 1944. The result of an extermination campaign carried out by the SS-Galicia.
Photographer unknown. The photograph, designated W - 1231, is presented thanks to the archive.
We see the ripped open belly and the insides from the outside, as well as a hand hanging from the skin - the result of an attempt to chop it off. The case of OUN - UPA (OUN - UPA).
BEŁŻEC, region, Rawa Ruska County, Lwów Voivodeship. June 16, 1944.
An adult woman with a visible wound of more than ten centimeters on her buttock, as a result of a strong blow with a sharp instrument, as well as small round wounds on her body, indicating torture. Nearby is a small child with visible injuries on his face.
Fragment of the execution site in the forest. A Polish child is among the adult victims killed by Bandera. The mutilated head of a child is visible.
LUBYCZA KRÓLEWSKA, region, Rawa Ruska County, Lwów Voivodeship. June 16, 1944.
A fragment of the forest near the railway track near Lyubycha Krolevskaya, where UPA terrorists cunningly detained a passenger train on the route Belzec - Rawa Ruska - Lvov and shot at least 47 passengers - Polish men, women and children. Beforehand they mocked living people, just as they later mocked the dead. They used violence - punches, beatings with rifle butts, and a pregnant woman was pinned to the ground with bayonets. Dead bodies were desecrated. They stole the victims' personal documents, watches, money and other valuable items. The names of most of the victims are known.
LUBYCZA KRÓLEWSKA, forest area, Rawa Ruska County, Lwów Voivodeship. June 16, 1944.
A fragment of the forest - the place of execution. Polish victims, killed by Bandera, lie on the ground. In the central shot is a naked woman tied to a tree.
A fragment of the forest - the place of execution of Polish passengers killed by Ukrainian chauvinists.
LUBYCZA KRÓLEWSKA, Rawa Ruska County, Lwów Voivodeship. June 16, 1944.
A fragment of the forest - the place of execution. Polish women killed by Bandera
CZORTKÓW, Ternopil Voivodeship.
Two, most likely, Polish victims of Bandera's terror. There are no more detailed data regarding the names of the victims, nationality, place and circumstances of death.
— Z.D. from Poland: “Those who ran away were shot, caught up on horseback and killed. On August 30, 1943, in the village of Gnoino, the headman appointed 8 Poles to work in Germany. Ukrainian Bandera partisans took them to the Kobylno forest, where there used to be Soviet camps and they threw them alive into a well, into which they then threw a grenade.”
— C.B. from the USA: In Podlesye, as the village was called, Bandera’s men tortured four from the family of miller Petrushevsky, and 17-year-old Adolfina was dragged along a rocky rural road until she died.”
— E.B. from Poland: “After the murder of the Kozubskys in Belozerka near Kremenets, the Banderaites went to the Gyuzikhovskys’ farm. Seventeen-year-old Regina jumped out the window, the bandits killed their daughter-in-law and her three-year-old son, whom she was holding in her arms. Then they set fire to the hut and left.”
— A.L. from Poland: “On August 30, 1943, the UPA attacked the following villages and killed them:
1. Kuty. 138 people, including 63 children.
2. Yankovitsy. 79 people, including 18 children.
3. Island. 439 people, including 141 children.
4. Will of Ostrovetska. 529 people, including 220 children.
5. Chmikov colony - 240 people, including 50 children.
— M.B. from the USA: “They shot, stabbed, burned.”
— T.M. from Poland: “They hanged Ogaška, and before that they burned the hair on his head.”
— M.P. from the USA: “They surrounded the village, set it on fire and killed those escaping.”
— F.K. from the UK: “They took my daughter and I to a collection point near the church. About 15 people were already standing there - women and children. Sotnik Golovachuk and his brother began tying her arms and legs with barbed wire. The sister began to pray out loud, sotnik Golovachuk began to hit her in the face and trample feet."
— F.B. from Canada: “Bandera’s men came to our yard, caught our father and cut off his head with an ax, they pierced our sister with a bayonet. My mother, seeing all this, died of a broken heart.”
— Yu.V. from Great Britain: “My brother’s wife was Ukrainian and because she married a Pole, 18 Bandera men raped her. She never recovered from this shock, her brother did not feel sorry for her and she drowned herself in the Dniester.”
— V.Ch. from Canada: “In the village of Bushkovitsy, eight Polish families were driven into the stodola, there they were all killed with axes and the stodola was set on fire.”
— Yu.Kh from Poland: “In March 1944, our village of Guta Shklyana was attacked by Banderaites, among them was one named Didukh from the village of Oglyadov. They killed five people. They shot and finished off the wounded. Yu. Khorostetsky was chopped in half with an ax. They raped a minor.” .
— T.R. from Poland: “The village of Osmigovichi. On July 11, 1943, during the service of God, Bandera’s men attacked, killed those praying, and a week after that they attacked our village. Small children were thrown into a well, and those who were larger were locked in the basement and dumped him. One Bandera member, holding an infant by the legs, hit his head against the wall. The mother of this child screamed, she was bayoneted."
A separate, very important section in the history of evidence of the mass extermination of Poles carried out by the OUN-UPA in Volyn is the book by Yu. Turovsky and V. Semashko “Atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists committed against the Polish population of Volyn 1939-1945.” This book is distinguished by its objectivity. It is not filled with hatred, although it describes the martyrdom of thousands of Poles. This book should not be read by people with weak nerves. In 166 pages of fine print, it lists and describes methods of mass murder of men, women, and children. Here are just some excerpts from this book.
— On July 16, 1942, in Klevan, Ukrainian nationalists committed a provocation and prepared an anti-German leaflet in Polish. As a result, the Germans shot several dozen Poles.
November 13, 1942 Obirki, Polish village near Lutsk. Ukrainian police, under the command of nationalist Sachkovsky, a former teacher, attacked the village because of collaboration with Soviet partisans. Women, children and old people were herded into one valley, where they were killed and then burned. 17 people were taken to Klevan and shot there.
- November 1942, outskirts of the village of Virka. Ukrainian nationalists tortured Jan Zelinsky, putting him tied in a fire.
- November 9, 1943, the Polish village of Parosle in the Sarny region. A gang of Ukrainian nationalists, pretending to be Soviet partisans, misled the village residents, who treated the gang throughout the day. In the evening, bandits surrounded all the houses and killed the Polish population in them. 173 people were killed. Only two survived, they were littered with corpses, and a 6-year-old boy who pretended to be killed. A later examination of the dead showed the exceptional cruelty of the executioners. Breast babies were nailed to tables with kitchen knives, several people were skinned, women were raped, some had their breasts cut off, many had their ears and noses cut off, their eyes gouged out, their heads cut off. After the massacre, they organized a drinking party at the local elder's house. After the executioners left, among scattered bottles of moonshine and leftover food, they found a one-year-old child nailed to the table with a bayonet, and in his mouth was a piece of pickled cucumber that had been half-eaten by one of the bandits.
- March 11, 1943, Ukrainian village of Litogoshcha near Kovel. Ukrainian nationalists tortured a Pole teacher, as well as several Ukrainian families who resisted the extermination of the Poles.
- March 22, 1943, the village of Radovichi, Kovel region. A gang of Ukrainian nationalists, dressed in German uniforms, demanding the release of weapons, tortured Lesnevsky’s father and two brothers.
- March 1943 Zagortsy, Dubnensky district. Ukrainian nationalists kidnapped the farm manager, and when he ran away, the executioners stabbed him with bayonets and then nailed him to the ground “so he wouldn’t get up.”
March 1943. In the outskirts of Guta Stepanskaya, Kostopil region, Ukrainian nationalists deceived 18 Polish girls, who were killed after rape. The bodies of the girls were placed in one row and a ribbon was placed on them with the inscription: “This is how Lyashki (Poles) should die.”
- March 1943, the village of Mosty, Kostopol district, Pavel and Stanislav Bednazhi had Ukrainian wives. Both were martyred by Ukrainian nationalists. The wife of one was also killed. The second Natalka was saved.
March 1943, village of Banasovka, Lutsk region. A gang of Ukrainian nationalists tortured 24 Poles, their bodies were thrown into a well.
- March 1943, Antonovka settlement, Sarnensky district. Jozef Eismont went to the mill. The owner of the mill, a Ukrainian, warned him of the danger. When he was returning from the mill, Ukrainian nationalists attacked him, tied him to a pole, gouged out his eyes, and then cut him alive with a saw.
- July 11, 1943, Biskupichi village, Vladimir Volynsky district Ukrainian nationalists committed massacre, driving residents into a school building. At the same time, the family of Vladimir Yaskula was brutally murdered. The executioners burst into the hut while everyone was sleeping. They killed the parents with axes, and laid the five children nearby, covered them with straw from mattresses and set them on fire.
July 11, 1943, the village of Svoychev near Vladimir Volynsky. Ukrainian Glembitsky killed his Polish wife, two children and his wife’s parents.
July 12, 1943 Maria Volya colony near Vladimir Volynsky Around 15.00, Ukrainian nationalists surrounded it and began to kill Poles using firearms, axes, pitchforks, knives, and guns. About 200 people (45 families) died. Some of the people, about 30 people, were thrown into Kopodets and there they were killed with stones. Those who ran away were caught up and killed. During this massacre, the Ukrainian Vladislav Didukh was ordered to kill his Polish wife and two children. When he did not comply with the order, he and his family were killed. Eighteen children aged from 3 to 12 years old, who hid in a field, were caught by the executioners, put on a cart, taken to the village of Chesny Krest and there they killed everyone, pierced them with pitchforks, and chopped them with axes. The action was led by Kvasnitsky...
- August 30, 1943, Polish village of Kuty, Lyubomlsky district. Early in the morning, the village was surrounded by UPA archers and Ukrainian peasants, mainly from the village of Lesnyaki, and committed a massacre of the Polish population. They killed in huts, in courtyards, in stodols, using pitchforks and axes. Pavel Pronchuk, a Pole who tried to protect his mother, was laid on a bench, his arms and legs were cut off, and he was left to die as a martyr.
- August 30, 1943, the Polish village of Ostrowki near Lyuboml. The village was surrounded by a dense ring. Ukrainian emissaries entered the village, offering to lay down their arms. Most of the men gathered at the school where they had been locked up. Then they took five people out of the garden, where they were killed with a blow to the head and thrown into dug holes. The bodies were stacked in layers, covered with earth. Women and children were gathered in the church, ordered to lie on the floor, after which they were shot in the head one by one. 483 people died, including 146 children.
UPA member Danilo Shumuk cites in his book the story of a believer: “In the evening we went out again to these same farms, organized ten carts under the guise of red partisans and drove in the direction of Koryt... We drove, sang “Katyusha” and from time to time swore in -Russian..."
- 03/15/42, village of Kosice. Ukrainian police, together with the Germans, killed 145 Poles, 19 Ukrainians, 7 Jews, 9 Soviet prisoners;
- On the night of March 21, 1943, two Ukrainians were killed in Shumsk - Ishchuk and Kravchuk, who were helping the Poles;
- April 1943, Belozerka. These same bandits killed the Ukrainian Tatyana Mikolik because she had a child with a Pole;
- 5.05.43, Klepachev. Ukrainian Peter Trokhimchuk and his Polish wife were killed;
- 08/30/43, Kuty. The Ukrainian family of Vladimir Krasovsky with two small children was brutally murdered;
- August 1943, Yanovka. Bandera killed a Polish child and two Ukrainian children, as they were raised in a Polish family;
— August 1943, Antolin. Ukrainian Mikhail Mishchanyuk, who had a Polish wife, was ordered to kill her and their one-year-old child. As a result of his refusal, his neighbors killed him, his wife and child.
“Member of the leadership of the Provod (Bandera’s OUN - V.P.) Maxim Ruban (Nikolai Lebed) demanded from the Main Team of the UPA (that is, from Tapac Bulba-Borovets - V.P.) ... very much all the rebel peace from the Polish population.. ."
* Oleksandr Gritsenko: “Army of the 6th powers”, y z6iptsi “Tydy, de 6th for freedom”, London, 1989, p. 405
“Already during the negotiations (between N. Lebed and T. Bulba-Borovets - V.P.), instead of carrying out the action along a jointly drawn line, the military departments of the OUN (Bandera - V.P.) ... began to destroy shamefully the Polish civilian population and other national minorities...No party has a monopoly on the Ukrainian people...Can a true revolutionary-state leader obey the line of a party that begins building a state by slaughtering national minorities or senselessly burning their homes? Ukraine has more formidable enemies than the Poles... What are you fighting for? For Ukraine or your OUN? For the Ukrainian State or for the dictatorship in that state? For the Ukrainian people or only for your party?”
* “Bidkritiy leaf (Tapaka Bulbi - V.P.) to members of the Conduct of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Stepan Banderi” view 10 September 1943 p., for: “Ukrainian Historian”, US A, No. 1-4, volume 27, 1990, pp. 114-119.
“Anyone who evaded their (Bandera’s OUN - V.P.) instructions on mobilization was shot along with his family and his house was burned...”
* Maxim Skoppsky: “At attacks and types”, Chicago, 1961, after: “Tudi, de bi for freedom”, Kiev, 1992, p. 174.
“The Security Service began a massive purge among the population and in the UPA departments. For the smallest offense, and even for personal accounts, the population was punished by death. In the departments, the ones who suffered the most were the skits (people from Eastern Ukraine - Ed.per)... In general, the Security Service with its activities was the darkest page in the history of those years... The Security Service was organized in the German manner. Most of the SB commanders were former German police cadets in Zakopane (from 1939-40). They were mainly Galicians.”
* There zhc, cc. 144.145
“The order came to destroy all the unconvinced elements, and so the persecution began of everyone who seemed suspicious to one or another village resident. The prosecutors were Bandera village residents, and no one else. That is, the liquidation of “enemies” was carried out exclusively on party principles... Stanichny prepared a list of “suspicious” and handed them over to the Security Council... those marked with crosses must be liquidated... But the most terrible tragedy occurred with the prisoners of the Red Army, who lived and worked in thousands villages of Volyn...Bandera’s followers came up with this method. They came to the house at night, took a prisoner and declared that they were Soviet partisans and ordered him to go with them... such people were destroyed..."
* O. Shulyak: “I don’t like you”, for: “Tydi, de biy for freedom”, London, 1989, pp. 398,399
A witness to the events of that time in Volyn, a Ukrainian evangelical pastor, assesses the activities of the OUN-UPA-SB: “It got to the point that people (Ukrainian peasants - V.P.) were happy that somewhere nearby the Germans... were defeating the rebels (UPA - V.P.). Bandera’s men, in addition, collected tribute from the population... 3a any resistance of the peasants was punished by the Security Service, which was now the same horror as the NKVD or the Gestapo had once been.”
* Mikhailo Podvornyak: “Biter z Bolini”, Winnipeg, 1981, p. 305
The OUN in the period after the liberation of Western Ukraine by the Soviet Army put the population of that region in a hopeless situation: on the one hand, the legal Soviet government conscripted men into the army, on the other hand, the UPA, on pain of death, forbade joining the ranks of the Soviet Army. There are many known cases when the UPA-SB brutally destroyed conscripts and their families - parents, brothers, sisters.
* Center apxiв Min. defense CPCP, f. 134, op. 172182, no. 12, pp. 70-85
Under the conditions of OUN-UPA-SB terror, the population of Western Ukraine could not, without risking their lives, not provide assistance to the UPA, at least in the form of a glass of water or milk, and, on the other hand, the reigning Stalinist terror used cruel repressions for such actions in the form of deprivation freedom, exile to Siberia, deportations.
A woman of Belarusian-Lithuanian origin witnessed how a UPA deserter who “didn’t know how to kill” was seized by the SB, tortured, broke his arms and legs, cut out his tongue, cut off his ears and nose, and finally killed him. This Ukrainian was 18 years old.
OUN - UPA against Ukrainians:
According to summary data from Soviet archives, for the years 1944–1956, as a result of the actions of the UPA and the armed underground of the OUN, the following were killed: 2 deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, 1 head of the regional executive committee, 40 heads of city and district executive committees, 1,454 heads of village and town councils, 1,235 other Soviet workers , 5 secretaries of city and 30 district committees of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR, 216 other party workers, 205 Komsomol workers, 314 heads of collective farms, 676 workers, 1931 representatives of the intelligentsia including 50 priests, 15,355 peasants and collective farmers, children of the elderly, housewives - 860.
Victor Polishchuk
Bitter truth. Crimes of the OUN-UPA (confession of a Ukrainian)
We would like to introduce readers to fragments of Viktor Polishchuk’s book “The Bitter Truth. Crimes of the OUN-UPA (confession of a Ukrainian),” published in Toronto. This book is unusual in many ways. And above all, the personality of the author and his position.
Viktor Varfolomeevich Polishchuk was born in 1925 in Volyn, on territory that belonged to Poland until 1939. He comes from an ethnically mixed family (father is Ukrainian, mother is Polish), of which a great many lived in Volyn. By religion - Orthodox. In September 1939, when Soviet troops entered Western Ukraine, V. Polishchuk’s father was arrested by NKVD members. Until now, nothing is known about his fate. Viktor Polishchuk with his mother and sisters was deported to Northern Kazakhstan. In 1944-46. worked at the Vasilkov grain state farm in the Dnepropetrovsk region. In 1946 he went to Poland, where he received a higher legal education. Since 1981 he has lived in Canada and owns his own publishing company. He has the academic degrees of Candidate of Legal Sciences and Doctor of Political Science, and is the author of a number of scientific and journalistic works. The book “The Bitter Truth” tells about the little-known events of the Second World War in Western Ukraine: the massacres of the Polish civilian population, as well as the Ukrainians who helped them, by members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. V. Polishchuk has collected a huge amount of documented facts about the atrocities of fighters for the “Ukrainian idea.” It is impossible not to pay tribute to the courage of this man. His desire to recall the bitter lessons of history, to prevent the revival of Ukrainian nationalism, in which he sees a terrible evil, aroused the hatred of Banderaites of different generations and the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada and the United States, most of them, according to the author, controlled by the OUN. Far from the realities of modern Ukraine, V. Polishchuk sincerely cannot understand how historians, who yesterday stigmatized Bandera, today justify it, how literary figures, who once shed poetic tears over the victims of nationalist criminals, now glorify their executioners. The Ukrainian people are not infected with nationalism, says V. Polishchuk in his book. They are trying to revive and implant nationalism in Ukraine. In response to accusations of anti-patriotism, he notes: “I am not accusing my people, but cleansing them of the filth that is the OUN-UPA.”
Part II. Crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
... you who committed iniquities.
Gospel of Matthew I dedicate this work to the memory of the victims of the OUN-UPA.
About the crimes of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Those who do not remember the lessons of history are doomed to relive them again. Is the Ukrainian Insurgent Army a good or bad lesson for Ukrainians? Should we include him in textbooks as an example of heroism and glory, or should we be ashamed of the activities of the UPA and repent?
Victims of the UPA. Lyuboml. In the area of Ostrowki near Lyuboml, in Ukraine, the remains of Poles shot by the UPA on August 30, 1943 are being exhumed. On that day, more than 1,700 Poles from the villages of Ostrowka died in Ostrowki. Will Ostrowiecka, Janowiec and Kuty. Their remains will be transferred to the Polish cemetery in Rymachy near Jagodin (Gazeta, Toronto, August 24-25, 1992).
“Before the war, I finished 9th grade. When the Germans took young people to Germany for hard labor, they took me too. But I was lucky enough to escape, and I joined the partisans. He ended up in the partisan association of M. Shukaev, which fought in the rear from Chernigov to Czechoslovakia. That is, through the Zhytomyr region, the Rivne region, the Ternopil region, the Lviv region, the Carpathian region... So we had to meet with the Banderaites (OUN, UPA) more than once or twice. And not at the table, but in battles... God forbid it should fall into their hands! They bullied us worse than the Germans. They carved stars on their chests or foreheads, twisted their arms and legs, and tortured them to death. And how many Polish villages they burned and slaughtered Poles with “sacred knives”! How many civilians, employees, teachers were killed after the war! This is what their struggle for free Ukraine was like (“Robitnycha Gazeta”, Kiev, September 29, 1992).
The conference “Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the national liberation struggle in Ukraine 1940–1950,” which was held in Kiev in August 1992, recommends to the President of Ukraine: “The conference raises the question that the legislative bodies of the new Ukraine recognize the OUN, UPA, UGOR (Ukrainian Main Liberation Rada) are the most consistent fighters for the independence of Ukraine, and the fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army are the belligerent party.” (“New Way”; Toronto, September 26, 1992)
M. Zelenchuk, Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of the UPA on Sofiyskaya Square 26.08. 1992 demanded: “Recognize the struggle of the UPA as a fair liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people for their Independent Power” (“Gomin Ukrainy”, Toronto, September 16, 1992)…
So what is the UPA?.. Was it the army that brought glory to Ukraine?
Evidence of UPA crimes
If we were to describe all the atrocities of the UPA against the Polish and Ukrainian people, about which there is evidence, then it would be necessary to publish a separate book, citing only the facts without commentary on hundreds of pages in small print. I myself collected more than a hundred, signed by specific people, indicating the address. But first I will give personal evidence.
In the summer of 1943, my maternal aunt Anastasia Vitkovskaya went with her Ukrainian neighbor during the day to the village of Tarakanov, located three kilometers from the city of Dubno. They spoke Polish, since my aunt, an illiterate woman originally from the Lublin region, was unable to learn the Ukrainian language. They went to exchange something for bread, since their aunt had six children. Neither she nor her uncle, Anton Vitkovsky, also a completely illiterate person, never interfered in any politics, but also had no idea about it. And she, as well as her Ukrainian neighbor, were killed by Bandera members from the UPA or Self-Defense Bush Departments (they included local peasants, often armed with pitchforks and knives, subordinate to the OUN-UPA) just because they spoke Polish. They killed him brutally with axes and threw him into a roadside ditch. Another aunt, Sabina, who was married to a Ukrainian Vasily Zagorovsky, told me about this.
My wife's parents lived in Polesie before the war. Her father is Czech and her mother is Polish. The family spoke Polish. When mass killings of Poles began in southern Polesie at the beginning of 1943, the whole family fled to their father’s parents in the village of Ugorek near Derman.
One day, a Ukrainian acquaintance told his father-in-law that the UPA was preparing to destroy his family. They fled to Kremenets. Someone heard the conversation between this young Ukrainian and my wife’s father. Suspecting him of “treason,” they hanged him in the center of the village and attached a sign to his chest: “This will happen to all traitors.” The hanged man was not allowed to be filmed for several days.
Two facts that took place in different places at different times. They have one thing in common: the authorship of the OUN-UPA, the causelessness of the murders. My father had a brother, Yarokhtey, who lived in the village. Linden, Dubensky district. Because he openly denounced the UPA, he was shot in the mouth. Uncle Yarokhtey was an ordinary, illiterate peasant.
It is not possible in one book to talk about all the individual massacres of Poles and Ukrainians committed by the OUN-UPA, so I will limit myself to only a few.
A person very close to me, M.S. said: “On March 24, 1944, on a frosty night, Bandera attacked our huts and set fire to all the buildings. We lived in the village of Polyanovitsa (Tsytsivka) of Zborovsky district (the author called the old administrative division - ed.) of Ternopil region. My father, a Pole, married a Ukrainian woman. We lived in peace with Ukrainians from neighboring villages. We heard about murders in Volyn, but at first we did not think that they could kill us too. Somewhere in February 1944, the Banderaites (we didn’t understand who was in the UPA, who was in another group - everyone was called Banderaites, since they themselves glorified the “leader” Bandera) put a ransom demand on our village. The peasants collected the money and gave it to the Banderaites. But it did not help. At night, all the men, that is, father, younger brother and I, as on other nights, slept in a shelter under outbuildings. My mother (Ukrainian) with my two sisters and my father’s sister, who married a Ukrainian from near Kharkov, spent the night in the hut. Immediately after midnight we smelled smoke and guessed that the UPA had set fire to the houses. I jumped out of the cellar, raising my lyada. They shot at me as I was running away, but they didn’t hit me. My father also tried to get out of the cellar, but could not - he burned down. My younger brother suffocated from the smoke. A mother running away from a burning house was wounded, but escaped. The seven-year-old sister also escaped, although she was wounded in the knee. My father’s sister also ran away and was shot in the arm, as a result of which her arm had to be amputated. The second 13-year-old sister, while running away, caught the eye of a Bandera man, who pierced her chest with a bayonet, and she died on the spot. That same night, Bandera’s people burned and killed our neighbors - Beloskursky and Baranovsky and others from our small village”...
And such atrocities have been committed by the “heroes of Ukraine”!
We read and absorb. This must be conveyed to the consciousness of our children. We need to learn to decently interpret the detailed terrible truth about the atrocities of the Bandera heroes of the Zvaryche-Khoruzhev nation.
Detailed materials about the struggle of the “heroes of the nation” on this land against the civilian population can be easily found in any search engine.
This is our proud history.
"...on the day of the anniversary of the UPA, the Upovites decided to present their “general” with an unusual gift - 5 heads cut off from the Poles. He was pleasantly surprised both by the gift itself and by the resourcefulness of his subordinates.
Such “zeal” embarrassed even seasoned Germans. The General Commissioner of Volyn and Podolia, Obergruppenführer Schöne, asked the “Metropolitan” Polycarp Sikorsky to calm down his “flock” on May 28, 1943: “National bandits (my italics) also manifest their activities in attacks on unarmed Poles. According to our calculations, 15 thousand Poles have been muzzled today! The Yanova Dolina colony does not exist.”
In the “SS Chronicle of the Galicia Rifle Division,” which was kept by its Military Administration, there is the following entry: “03/20/44: there is in Volyn, which is probably already in Galicia, a Ukrainian rebel who boasts that he strangled 300 shower of the Poles. He is considered a hero."
The Poles have published dozens of volumes of such facts of genocide, none of which Bandera’s supporters have refuted. There are no more than a notebook's worth of stories about similar acts of the Home Army. And even that should be supported by substantial evidence.
Moreover, the Poles did not ignore examples of mercy on the part of Ukrainians. For example, in Virka, Kostopol district, Frantiska Dzekanska, while carrying her 5-year-old daughter Jadzia, was mortally wounded by a Bandera bullet. The same bullet grazed the child's leg. For 10 days the child stayed with the murdered mother, eating grains from the spikelets. A Ukrainian teacher saved the girl.
At the same time, he probably knew what such an attitude towards “outsiders” threatened him with. After all, in the same district, Bandera’s men muzzled two Ukrainian children just because they were raised in a Polish family, and three-year-old Stasik Pavlyuk’s head was smashed against the wall, holding him by the legs.
Of course, terrible revenge awaited those Ukrainians who treated the Soviet liberating soldiers without hostility. OUN district guide Ivan Revenyuk (“Proud”) recalled how “at night, from the village of Khmyzovo, a rural girl of about 17 years old, or even younger, was brought into the forest. Her fault was that she, along with other village girls, went to dances when there was a military unit of the Red Army in the village. Kubik (brigade commander of the UPA "Tury" military district) saw the girl and asked Varnak (the conductor of the Kovel district) for permission to personally interrogate her. He demanded that she admit that she “walked” with the soldiers. The girl swore that this did not happen. “I’ll check it now,” Kubik grinned, sharpening a pine stick with a knife. A moment later, he jumped up to the prisoner and began to stick the sharp end between her legs until he drove the pine stake into the girl’s genitals.”
One night, bandits broke into the Ukrainian village of Lozovoye and killed over 100 of its residents in an hour and a half. In the Dyagun family, Bandera killed three children. The youngest, four-year-old Vladik, had his arms and legs cut off. The killers found two children in the Makukh family: three-year-old Ivasik and ten-month-old Joseph. The ten-month-old child, seeing the man, was delighted and laughingly stretched out her arms to him, showing her four teeth. But the ruthless bandit slashed the baby’s head with a knife, and cut off the head of his brother Ivasik with an ax.
One night, Bandera’s men brought a whole family from the village of Volkovya to the forest. They mocked unfortunate people for a long time. Then, seeing that the wife of the head of the family was pregnant, they cut her stomach, tore out the fetus from it, and instead stuffed a live rabbit into it.
“They surpassed even the sadistic German SS men with their atrocities. They torture our people, our peasants... Don’t we know that they cut up small children, smash their heads against stone walls so that their brains fly out of them. Terrible brutal murders are the actions of these rabid wolves,” cried Yaroslav Galan. With similar anger, the atrocities of Bandera were denounced by the OUN of Melnik, the UPA of Bulba-Borovets, the government of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic in exile, and the Union of Hetmans-Derzhavniki, which settled in Canada.
Even if belatedly, some Banderaites still repent of their crimes. So in January 2004, an elderly woman came to the editorial office of Sovetskaya Luganshchina and handed over a package from her friend who had recently passed away. The editorial guest explained that with her visit she was fulfilling the last will of a native of the Volyn region, an active Banderist in the past, who towards the end of her life rethought her life and decided with her confession to atone for an irreparable sin, at least a little.
“I, Vdovichenko Nadezhda Timofeevna, a native of Volyn... I and my family ask you to forgive us all posthumously, because when people read this letter, I will no longer be (my friend will carry out my order).
There were five of us parents, we were all inveterate Bandera followers: brother Stepan, sister Anna, me, sisters Olya and Nina. We all wore banderas, slept in our huts during the day, and walked around the villages at night. We were given tasks to strangle those who sheltered Russian prisoners and the prisoners themselves. The men did this, and we women sorted through clothes, took cows and pigs from dead people, slaughtered livestock, processed everything, stewed it and put it in barrels. Once, 84 people were strangled to death in one night in the village of Romanov. Elderly people and old people were strangled, and small children were strangled by the legs - once, they hit their heads on the door - and they were done and ready to go. We felt sorry for our men that they would suffer so much during the night, but they would sleep off during the day and the next night they would go to another village. There were people hiding. If a man was hiding, they were mistaken for women...
The others were removed from Verkhovka: Kovalchuk’s wife, Tilimon, did not admit where he was for a long time, and did not want to open it, but they threatened her, and she was forced to open it. They said: “Tell me where your husband is, and we won’t touch you.” She admitted that in a stack of straw, they pulled him out, beat him, beat him until they beat him to death. And the two children, Styopa and Olya, were good children, 14 and 12 years old... The youngest was torn into two parts, but Yunka’s mother no longer needed to be strangled, her heart had broken. Young, healthy guys were taken into the detachments to strangle people. So, from Verkhovka, two Levchuk brothers, Nikolai and Stepan, did not want to strangle them and ran home. We sentenced them to death. When we went to pick them up, the father said: “Take your sons and I’ll go.” Kalina, the wife, also says: “Take your husband and I’ll go.” They were brought out 400 meters away and Nadya asked: “Let Kolya go,” and Kolya said: Nadya, don’t ask, no one asked the Banders for time off and you won’t.” Kolya was killed. They killed Nadya, killed their father, and took Stepan alive, took him to a hut for two weeks in only his underwear - a shirt and pants, beat him with iron ramrods so that he would confess where his family was, but he was firm, did not admit to anything, and on the last evening they beat him , he asked to go to the toilet, one took him, and there was a strong snowstorm, the toilet was made of straw, and Stepan broke through the straw and ran away from our hands. All the data was given to us from Verkhovka by fellow countrymen Pyotr Rimarchuk, Zhabsky and Puch.
...In Novoselki, Rivne region, there was one Komsomol member, Motrya. We took her to Verkhovka to old Zhabsky and let’s get a heart from a living person. Old Salivon held a watch in one hand and a heart in the other to check how long the heart would beat in his hand. And when the Russians came, his sons wanted to erect a monument to him, saying he fought for Ukraine.
A Jewish woman was walking with a child, ran away from the ghetto, they stopped her, beat her and buried her in the forest. One of our banderas went after Polish girls. They gave him an order to remove them, and he said that he threw them into the stream. Their mother came running, crying, asking if I saw it, I said no, let’s go look, we go over that stream, my mother and I go there. We were given an order: Jews, Poles, Russian prisoners and those who hide them, to strangle everyone without mercy. The Severin family was strangled, and their daughter was married in another village. She arrived in Romanov, but her parents weren’t there, she started crying and let’s dig up things. The Banderas came, took the clothes, and locked my daughter alive in the same box and buried her. And her two small children remained at home. And if the children had come with their mother, then they too would have been in that box. There was also Kubluk in our village. He was sent to Kotov, Kivertsovsky district, to work. I worked for a week and, well, they cut off Kubluk’s head, and the neighboring guy took his daughter. The Banderas ordered to kill their daughter Sonya, and Vasily said: “We’re going to the forest for firewood.” Let's go, Vasily brought Sonya dead, and told people that the tree had killed her.
Timofey lived in our village. The old, old grandfather, what he said, so it will be, was a prophet from God. When the Germans arrived, they were immediately informed that there was such a person in the village, and the Germans immediately went to the old man so that he would tell him what would happen to them... And he told them: “I won’t tell you anything, because you will kill me.” " The negotiator promised that he would not lay a finger on him. Then the grandfather says to them: “You will reach Moscow, but from there you will run away as best you can.” The Germans did not touch him, but when the old prophet told the Banderas that they would not do anything by strangling the people of Ukraine, the Banderas came and beat him until he was killed.
Now I will describe about my family. Brother Stepan was an inveterate Banderaite, but I didn’t lag behind him, I went everywhere with Banderas, although I was married. When the Russians arrived, arrests began and people were taken out. Our family too. Olya made an agreement at the station, and she was released, but the Banderas came, took her away and strangled her. The father remained with his mother and sister Nina in Russia. The mother is old. Nina flatly refused to go to work for Russia, then her bosses offered her to work as a secretary. But Nina said that she didn’t want to hold a Soviet pen in her hands. They again met her halfway: “If you don’t want to do anything, then sign that you will hand over the Banders, and we will let you go home. Nina, without thinking for a long time, signed her name and was released. Nina had not yet arrived home when the Banderas were already waiting for her, they had gathered a meeting of boys and girls and were judging Nina: look, they say, whoever raises a hand against us, this will happen to everyone. To this day I don’t know where they put her.
All my life I carried a heavy stone in my heart, because I believed in Bandera. I could sell any person if anyone said anything about the Banders. And let them, the accursed, be cursed by both God and people forever and ever. How many innocent people have been hacked to death, and now they want them to be equated with the defenders of Ukraine. And who did they fight with? With their neighbors, damned murderers. How much blood is on their hands, how many boxes with living people are buried. People were taken out, but even now they do not want to return to that Bandera era.
I tearfully beg you, people, forgive me my sins" (newspaper "Sovetskaya Luganshchina", January 2004, No. 1)...".
135 tortures and atrocities applied by OUN-UPA terrorists to civilians
Driving a large, thick nail into the skull of the head.
Ripping off hair and skin from the head (scalping).
A blow to the skull of the head with the butt of an ax.
A blow to the forehead with the butt of an ax.
"Eagle" carved on the forehead.
Driving a bayonet into the temple of the head.
Gouging out one eye.
Knocking out two eyes.
Nose cutting.
Circumcision of one ear.
Cropping both ears.
Piercing children through with stakes.
Punching a sharpened thick wire right through from ear to ear.
Lip cutting.
Tongue cutting.
Throat cutting.
Cutting the throat and pulling out through the hole of the tongue.
Cutting the throat and inserting a piece into the hole.
Knocking out teeth.
Broken jaw.
Tearing the mouth from ear to ear.
Gagging of mouths with tow while transporting still living victims.
Cutting the neck with a knife or sickle.
Vertical chopping of a head with an axe.
Rolling the head back.
Crush the head by placing it in a vice and tightening the screw.
Cutting off the head with a sickle.
Cutting off the head with a scythe.
Chopping off a head with an axe.
An ax blow to the neck.
Inflicting puncture wounds to the head.
Cutting and pulling narrow strips of skin from the back.
Inflicting other chopped wounds on the back.
Stabbing with a bayonet in the back.
Broken rib cage bones.
Stabbing with a knife or bayonet in the heart or near the heart.
Causing puncture wounds to the chest with a knife or bayonet.
Cutting off a woman's breast with a sickle.
Cutting off women's breasts and pouring salt on the wounds.
Cutting off the genitals of male victims with a sickle.
Sawing the body in half with a carpenter's saw.
Causing puncture wounds to the abdomen with a knife or bayonet.
Piercing a pregnant woman's stomach with a bayonet.
Cutting open the abdomen and pulling out the intestines of adults.
Cutting the abdomen of a woman with an advanced pregnancy and inserting, for example, a live cat instead of the removed fetus and suturing the abdomen.
Cutting open the abdomen and pouring boiling water inside.
Cutting open the belly and putting stones inside it, as well as throwing it into the river.
Cutting open a pregnant woman's belly and pouring broken glass inside.
Pulling out veins from groin to feet.
Placing a hot iron into the groin - vagina.
Inserting pine cones into the vagina with the top side facing forward.
Inserting a sharpened stake into the vagina and pushing it all the way down to the throat.
Cutting a woman's front torso with a garden knife from the vagina to the neck and leaving the insides outside.
Hanging victims by their entrails.
Inserting a glass bottle into the vagina and breaking it.
Inserting a glass bottle into the anus and breaking it.
Cutting open the belly and pouring inside the feed, the so-called feed meal, for hungry pigs, who tore out this feed along with the intestines and other entrails.
Chopping off one hand with an ax.
Chopping off both hands with an axe.
Piercing the palm with a knife.
Cutting off fingers with a knife.
Cutting off the palm.
Cauterization of the inside of the palm on a hot stove in a coal kitchen.
Chopping off the heel.
Chopping off the foot above the heel bone.
Breaking arm bones in several places with a blunt instrument.
Breaking leg bones with a blunt instrument in several places.
Sawing the body, lined with boards on both sides, in half with a carpenter's saw.
Sawing the body in half with a special saw.
Sawing off both legs with a saw.
Sprinkling hot coal on bound feet.
Nailing your hands to the table and your feet to the floor.
Nailing hands and feet to a cross in a church.
Hitting the back of the head with an ax to victims who had previously been laid on the floor.
Hitting the entire body with an ax.
Chopping an entire body into pieces with an ax.
Breaking alive legs and arms in the so-called strap.
Nailing the tongue of a small child, who later hung on it, to the table with a knife.
Cutting a child into pieces with a knife and throwing them around.
Ripping the belly of children.
Nailing a small child to a table with a bayonet.
Hanging a male child by his genitals from a doorknob.
Knocking out a child's leg joints.
Knocking out the joints of a child's hands.
Suffocation of a child by throwing various rags over him.
Throwing small children alive into a deep well.
Throwing a child into the flames of a burning building.
Breaking a baby's head by picking him up by the legs and hitting him against a wall or stove.
Hanging a monk by his feet near the pulpit in a church.
Placing a child on a stake.
Hanging a woman upside down from a tree and mocking her - cutting off her breasts and tongue, cutting her stomach, gouging out her eyes, and cutting off pieces of her body with knives.
Nailing a small child to a door.
Hanging from a tree with your head up.
Hanging from a tree upside down.
Hanging from a tree with your feet up and scorching your head from below with the fire of a fire lit under your head.
Throwing down from a cliff.
Drowning in the river.
Drowning by throwing into a deep well.
Drowning in a well and throwing stones at the victim.
Piercing with a pitchfork, and then roasting pieces of the body over a fire.
Throwing an adult into the flames of a fire in a forest clearing, around which Ukrainian girls sang and danced to the sounds of an accordion.
Driving a stake through the stomach and strengthening it in the ground.
Tying a man to a tree and shooting him at a target.
Taking them out into the cold naked or in underwear.
Strangulation with a twisted, soapy rope tied around the neck - a lasso.
Dragging a body along the street with a rope tied around the neck.
Tying a woman's legs to two trees, as well as her arms above her head, and cutting her stomach from the crotch to the chest.
Torso tearing with chains.
Dragging along the ground tied to a cart.
Dragging along the ground a mother with three children, tied to a cart drawn by a horse, in such a way that one leg of the mother is tied with a chain to the cart, and to the other leg of the mother is one leg of the oldest child, and to the other leg of the oldest child is tied the youngest child, and the leg of the youngest child is tied to the other leg of the youngest child.
Piercing the body through the barrel of a carbine.
Confining the victim with barbed wire.
Two victims being tied together with barbed wire.
Dragging several victims together with barbed wire.
Periodically tightening the torso with barbed wire and pouring cold water on the victim every few hours in order to regain consciousness and feel pain and suffering.
Burying the victim in a standing position in the ground up to his neck and leaving him in that position.
Burying alive up to the neck in the ground and later cutting off the head with a scythe.
Ripping the torso in half with the help of horses.
Tearing the torso in half by tying the victim to two bent trees and then freeing them.
Throwing adults into the flames of a burning building.
Setting fire to a victim previously doused with kerosene.
Laying sheaves of straw around the victim and setting them on fire, thus making the torch of Nero.
Sticking a knife into the back and leaving it in the victim's body.
Impaling a baby on a pitchfork and throwing him into the flames of a fire.
Cutting off the skin from the face with blades.
Driving oak stakes between the ribs.
Hanging on barbed wire.
Ripping off the skin from the body and filling the wound with ink, as well as dousing it with boiling water.
Attaching the torso to a support and throwing knives at it.
Binding is the shackling of hands with barbed wire.
Inflicting fatal blows with a shovel.
Nailing hands to the threshold of a home.
Dragging a body along the ground by legs tied with a rope.
Today, instructions for the Ukrainian media for May 9 have leaked online - how to cover the events of the Second World War, and the recently finally rehabilitated OUN-UPA.
The main messages are that Ukraine was liberated from the Nazis not by the Soviet Army, but by the Ukrainian people, and much of the credit for this went to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Bandera). In addition, they recommend focusing on the number of Russians who fought in the ROA (Vlasovites), and on Russia’s deliberate underestimation of the role of the Ukrainian people in the victory in World War II (that’s right - World War II, WWII cannot be used).
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I won’t publish everything, I think the essence is already clear... Plus, the Ukrainian authorities recommend proceeding from the fact that “May 9 is not a Victory Day, but first of all a lesson for Ukraine, Europe and the whole world,” and also call for equalizing Putin’s Russia and Hitler’s mode.
In principle, there is nothing new - Kyiv continues to impose a mutilated version of history on Ukrainians and promote Russophobia. Actually, this is why it was necessary to glorify the chronic Russophobes Bandera, who allegedly fought simultaneously against two totalitarian regimes (Soviet and Nazi) for an independent Ukraine. But it is very difficult to reconcile the incompatible, 6 million Ukrainians who fought against the fascists in the ranks of the SA, and 300 thousand Galician nationalists who fought with the Germans against the Soviet Union, i.e. AGAINST YOUR PEOPLE. That is why we have to lie so much and ignore historical facts.
Let me remind you that the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists have been proven in trials, just as their direct connection with the Nazis has been proven (there is a huge amount of photo and video evidence of this, see below). In contrast to this, the German archives do not record a SINGLE FACT of serious clashes between Bandera’s followers and the Nazis, except for minor skirmishes, which the Germans themselves characterized as rare and not worthy of attention.
In 1941, Galicia greeted the Germans with flowers, bread and salt, and ceremonial parades; Ukrainian nationalists were promised an independent Ukraine, so they not only welcomed the Nazis, but also actively joined the police and regular military formations. On the very first day of the creation of the SS Galicia, more than 20 thousand Ukrainians voluntarily signed up for it; within a week, another 40 thousand had sold their applications.
Photo chronicle: Galicia meets the Nazis, and SS volunteers Galicia
A little about the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism and the slogans that are chanted today
Taken almost one after another from the Nazi...
And how these slogans were used by the “fighters against Nazism” of that time
In addition to the SS Galicia division, there were other formations of Ukrainian nationalists that, until 1943, clearly fought as part of or in direct interaction with the Germans:
Battalion Nachtigall(German: “Nachtigal” - “Nightingale”)
A unit formed primarily from members and supporters of the OUN(b) and trained by the military intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of Nazi Germany, the Abwehr, for operations on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. Which was headed by . It was Nachtigal, together with German troops, who took part in the invasion of the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, acting as part of the Brandenburg regiment. On the night of June 29-30, 1941, the battalion was the first to enter Lviv.
Now Ukrainian propaganda is trying to portray Shukhevych like this
In the uniform of a UPA warrior and Ukrainian symbols. But in reality it was like this
Battalion Roland(German: "Roland")
Formed in 1941 with the sanction of the head of German military intelligence V. Canaris for training and use as part of the special reconnaissance and sabotage formation “Brandenburg-800” during the German attack on the USSR. Subordinate to the 2nd Department of the Abwehr Office (Amt Abwehr II) (special operations) under the Wehrmacht High Command.
Unlike Nachtigall, its personnel were largely represented by Ukrainian emigrants of the first wave. In addition, up to 15% were Ukrainian students from Vienna and Graz. A former officer of the Polish army, Major E. Pobiguschi, was appointed commander of the battalion. All other officers and even instructors were Ukrainians, while the German command was represented by a communications group consisting of 3 officers and 8 non-commissioned officers. The battalion's training took place at Zaubersdorf Castle, 9 km from Wiener Neustadt. In early June 1941, the battalion departed for Southern Bukovina, and then moved to the Iasi region, and from there through Chisinau and Dubossary to Odessa, operating as part of the 6th Wehrmacht Army in the territory of first Western and then Eastern Ukraine in June −July 1941.
In October 1941, "Nachtigall" and "Roland" were redeployed to Frankfurt an der Oder and sent for retraining for use as security police units.
But soon sobering up came - the Ukrainian state, which Bandera’s supporters proclaimed on June 30, 1941 in Lvov, lasted only 17 days, after which Bandera was arrested, and Hitler essentially declared Ukraine his colony, in which nationalists were assigned only police functions.
At the end of 1942 and the beginning of 43, some of the Galician nationalists (OUN b, followers of Bandera) “kicked up”. Refusing to follow orders from the Germans. Nominally, the reasons were the deception with independent Ukraine (a year and a half later), and the terror that the Germans inflicted on the civilian population, incl. and in the territory of Galicia. They drove them to Germany, took away food and livestock, without really understanding where the owner was fighting - in the Red Army or in the SS... But the main reason was that the Germans were losing the war, there was no longer any hope not only for an independent Ukraine, but even for some privileges in the Nazi...
Having refused to carry out direct orders from the Reich, the OUN-UPA, from the point of view of the Germans, became gangs of Ukrainian nationalists (that’s what they were called in reports), but there was no reason to destroy them, just like the OUN-UPA, there was no reason to start a war against the Nazis , they would thereby take the side of the Union, which by that time was already winning. And in Soviet Ukraine, nothing awaited them except camps.
Actually, the UPA itself appeared only in February 1943. Help
February 17-23, 1943 in the village. Ternobezhye, on the initiative of Roman Shukhevych, held the III OUN conference, at which a decision was made to intensify activities and begin an armed uprising.
The majority of the conference members supported Shukhevych (although M. Lebed objected), according to whom the main struggle should not be directed against the Germans, and against Soviet partisans and Poles - in the direction already carried out by D. Klyachkivsky in Volyn.
At the end of March 1943, supporters and members of the OUN who served in German paramilitary and police forces were ordered to go into the forests along with their weapons. According to the order intercepted by Soviet partisans, the actual beginning of “the formation of the Ukrainian national army at the expense of policemen, Cossacks and local Ukrainians of the Bandera and Bulbovsky direction” occurred in the second decade of March 1943.
The ranks of the future UPA in the period from March 15 to April 4, 1943 were replenished from 4 to 6 thousand members of the “Ukrainian” police, whose personnel in 1941-42 were actively involved in the extermination of Jews and Soviet citizens
From that moment on, the UPA nationalists allegedly ceased to submit to the Germans, and further fought against them and against the Soviet regime. Although, as I wrote above, there is no evidence of large-scale military operations of the UPA against the Germans, some minor skirmishes (the release of relatives of those driven away to work, the defense of their own homes, property, attacks on food warehouses/carts) cannot be considered such, this forced measures of self-survival.
Even in the collections of documents “UPA in the world of German documents” (book 1, Toronto 1983, book 3, Toronto 1991), compiled by the descendants of nationalists who emigrated to Canada (and therefore hardly impartial), there are very few examples of clashes between the UPA and the Nazis, and most of them are like this
Negotiations with one of the nationalist gangs not far from Rivne brought the following results: the gang will continue to fight against Soviet bandits and regular units of the Red Army. She refuses to participate in battles on the side of the Wehrmacht, as well as to surrender her weapons... In recent weeks, the actions of Ukrainian gangs have been directed not so much against the Wehrmacht, but against the German administration. Ukrainian gangs still oppose Polish, Soviet gangs and Polish settlements.
Actually, the UPA did not fight against the regular Soviet Army. By this point, they were living the dream of the mutual destruction of the Soviets and the Reich. Meanwhile, they themselves were concerned about their own survival and continued the work that they began under the leadership of the Nazis - the genocide of the civilian population, primarily supporters of the Soviet Power, and the ethnic cleansing of Poles and Jews, including jointly with the Nazis. Let me give you a few episodes:
The tragedy of Janova Dolina
On the night of April 22-23, 1943 (on the eve of Easter), detachments of the 1st UPA Group under the command of I. Litvinchuk (“Dubovoy”) entered the village. Yanovaya Dolina and began to set fire to all the buildings. Some of the residents died in the fire, those who tried to get out were killed.
The German garrison stationed in the village - a company of Lithuanian auxiliary police under German command - was in the village during the attack, but did not leave its location. The nationalists did not attack the garrison. The police did not try to oppose the nationalists, and opened fire only when the nationalists approached his location.
As a result of the action, between 500 and 800 people died, including women and children. Many were burned alive
The tragedy of Guta Penyatskaya
As of the beginning of 1944, the village of Guta Penyatskaya had about 1,000 inhabitants. The settlement of Guta Penyatskaya supported Polish and Soviet partisans in their actions to disorganize the German rear.
On February 28, 1944, the village was surrounded by the 2nd police battalion of the 4th regiment of the SS Volunteer Division "Galicia" with the support of the local UPA and was completely burned - only the skeletons of stone buildings remained - a church and a school. Of the more than a thousand residents of Guta Penyatskaya, no more than 50 people survived. More than 500 residents were burned alive in the church and their own homes.
The Tragedy of Podkamen
On March 12, 1944, a unit of the SS division “Galicia” entered the town of Podkamen under the pretext of searching for weapons and partisans. On the eve of the Polish self-defense of the town, an attack by a UPA detachment was repelled.
The SS Galicia soldiers who entered the territory of the monastery began to kill all the Poles who had taken refuge on its territory. Others, searching the place, demanded identification from the people they found. Whoever had it indicated in his “ausweiss” that he was a Pole was killed. Those who could prove the opposite were left alive... During the action, soldiers of the 4th regiment of the SS Volunteer Division "Galicia" with the participation of UPA units killed more than 250 people...
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There are many such examples, and they all confirm the cooperation of the UPA with the Nazis, including with the SS Galicia, which continues to fight as part of the Wehrmacht.
And by the way, the SS Galichna, which Ukrainian propaganda very rarely mentions, was also largely staffed by Galician nationalists, incl. and members of the OUN. The division was created in March 1943, and as they say, at the urgent requests of the patriotic public, I quote:
At the beginning of March 1943, in the newspapers of the district of Galicia, the “Manifesto to the combat-ready youth of Galicia” was published by the governor of the district of Galicia, Otto Wächter, which noted the devoted service “for the good of the Reich” of the Galician Ukrainians and their repeated requests to the Fuhrer to participate in the armed struggle, - and The Fuhrer, taking into account all the merits of the Galician Ukrainians, authorized the formation of the SS Rifle Division "Galicia"»
I wrote above that in the first week after the publication of the manifesto, 60 thousand volunteers applied to the division, and in total - about 80 thousand. It should be added that the SS Galicia was involved in punitive operations not only on the territory of Ukraine, but also in Slovakia and Yugoslavia. More information about their “exploits”.
Separately, in the activities of the Galician nationalists, one can highlight the genocide they committed against the Poles. According to various sources, from 30 to 60 thousand people were killed, mostly women and children of the elderly (Poland insists on the figure of 100 thousand). Now Kyiv is trying to justify the “Volyn Massacre” by saying that the Poles also killed ethnic Ukrainians. This is true, but on their part it was a retaliatory measure, in the hope of thereby pacifying Bandera’s supporters and stopping the massacre on the territory of Galicia, and the number of victims is completely incomparable.
Volyn Tragedy (Massacre)
There are many similar facts of UPA crimes (), and it makes no sense to reject them. According to individual photos, modern followers of Bandera give refutations (they were not taken there, or did not die at the hands of Bandera’s followers), but only a few refute them, and there are thousands of documents.
Attempts to attribute all this to the lies of Soviet propaganda are also untenable - the facts are confirmed by Polish, German, and Israeli historians.
And finally, a little video, for those who have the time and desire to understand the topic thoroughly.
Chronicle. SS Division Galicia. Colomia. Hutsuli
Followers of Bandera, OUN UPA, SS division Galicia (from 8.30 minutes photo and video chronicle)
OUN-UPA, Facts of History Today and the Past!
German State channel: Bandera collaborated with the Nazis and was involved in the extermination of Jews
VOLYN without a statute of limitations - a film about the crimes of the OUN-UPA
POLICEMAN (2014) BANDERISTS. UPA Army. Hard to watch, but useful. 16+
PS
Galician nationalists clearly fought on the side of Nazi Germany while they believed that Ukraine would be given to them for this, while they were used mainly to perform police functions and in punitive operations AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION, including AGAINST UKRAINIANS.
From the fact that they wanted to get Ukraine, it does not follow that they fought for freedom for the Ukrainian people; 2-3 years before these events they were citizens of Poland, and before that for hundreds of years they were part of Austria-Hungary, which suited many of them.
It’s scary to imagine what would have happened if Germany had won that war and kept its promise to give power over Ukraine to the Banderaites, and what fate would have awaited the families of those 6 million Ukrainians who went to fight in the Red Army, what would have awaited the Russians, Poles, and Jews living in Odessa , Kharkov, Donetsk... However, it is not difficult to imagine this, looking at the photos published above, and remembering Babi Yar in Kyiv, where, with the active participation of nationalists, from 70 to 200 thousand racially incorrect townspeople were shot.
This terrible photo shows Kyiv, September 1941. Babi Yar. A mother, a second before death, hugs her child. The man in the SS uniform who will kill her and the child in a second or two is not German. He is Ukrainian, or more precisely, a native of Western Ukraine, from Zhitomir. He served in the Galicia division, and since 1943 he participated in the work of the Einsatz groups.
Where do such details come from? Almost from himself. This photograph was confiscated by the partisans along with documents and an army badge. They seized it when they searched his body.
Bandera's supporters hoped to get Ukraine for themselves from the hands of the Nazis, but when they were denied this, they still considered them their allies.
In addition, by mid-1944 the Nazis were ousted from Western Ukraine - Bandera’s supporters were no longer physically able to fight against them.
To be fair, it should be noted that Bandera’s hatred of the Poles and the Soviet regime did not appear out of nowhere - it was preceded by the Polish-Ukrainian War, the forced Polonization of Galician Ukrainians, then the deportation of 200-300 thousand nationalists and their families, accompanied by an orgy of the NKVD members. All this can, to some extent, explain why Galicians greeted the Nazis as liberators, but this cannot justify the inhumane reprisals against women, elderly people and children.
And of course, Ukrainian nationalists did not fight against Nazism, or even more stupidly, against totalitarian regimes. Some of them fought for their own, racially pure Ukrainian Reich, others for the German one...
To write the article, only sources were used that confirmed the information with documentary evidence: Wikipedia, materials from the book of the Polish historian Alexander Korman “Genocide of the UPA”, the Canadian collection “UPA in the world of German documents”.