17.01.2026 was held in Bircza, a tiny but celebrated historic-theatral spectacle of Bircza 1946 in Podkarpacie.
Bircza, despite respective 100 years of history, was celebrated in peculiar for the fact that in 1939 the Polish 24 DP fought nearby, and then in 1945-1946 she repelled 3 times the UPA band robberies on this tiny town constituting an oasis of safety among areas occupied by bandits from the alleged Ukrainian Insurgency Army. A terrorist formation, composed of erstwhile Ukrainian police officers in the service of the German alleged Ukrainianische Hilfspolizei, members of the Red Army of the 14th SS Galizien Division and Ukrainian residents recruiting from adjacent areas. It was these residents who, on the 1 hand, had excellent field recognition, who were the majority of band members who volunteered. It should besides be noted that there were besides those under the punishment of death for them and their families recruited into UPA were forces, and local upa safety cells were zealously guarding order and order.
Due to the weakness of the recently built Polish state (the strategy changed) the CNS cells – UPA managed to temporarily master most of the area around Bircza and south of Przemyśl. Polish civilians were killed, police were attacked, tiny troops of Polish troops were ambushed, and convoys were ambushed. Murders on Polish civilian population met with retaliation from Polish self-defense, poakowski troops. The Banderows had to start counting on the fact that it was no longer Volyn or the territory of east Małopolska where they could fuck, execution and rob.
Why do I pay attention to the fact that most of the band members recruited from local Ukrainians? Immediately after the historic-theatre spectacle Bircza 1946, industrial levitation led by the main propagandists and defenders of “Ukrainianness” who attempted to present the surrounding Ukrainian residents in their subsurfaces as breadths of freedom, love for neighbor, and UPA as a formation formed as a consequence of countering the sending of Ukrainians into the russian Union. According to the author, UPA is simply a form of self-defense.
Yes, I know it's idiotic, but I only briefly quote the meaning and meaning of these thoughts of the author, although I am convinced that the inspiration came from another direction, as with the article on the web page with an eye in the name.
Well, these peace-loving Ukrainian citizens first caught and murdered or surrendered into German hands Polish soldiers from 17 pp. They then created proscription letters for the NKVD during the russian occupation, and after the change of the occupier in 1941 they became the basis for the creation of Ukrainian auxiliary police (German Ukrainianische Hilfspolizei). In order to guarantee order and order, they willingly murdered the judaic population from Bircza and the surrounding area, and then went on to repress and execution the Polish population to specified an degree that sometimes the Germans themselves had to pull a handbrake on them. Those who did not catch up with the police supplied troops of the 14th SS Galizien Division, and then jointly and in agreement joined the ranks of the UPA bands. any faster, any later.
The arrival of the Red Army forced the local hen to make a temporary transition to the Bieszczad area, but as early as autumn 1944 after the front, the bandits returned to the area around Przemyśl, continuing the work of cleaning the “Ukrainian lands” from the Polish element.
The Upers 3 times attacked Bircza unsuccessfully trying to execution both defenders and civilians. Just before the 3rd attack, most civilians evacuated with the army to Przemyśl, and in the town there were fewer who decided to leave their surrounding homes to find shelter with Polish soldiers and militias.
The 3rd attack, which occurred on the night of 6/7 January 1946, was besides repulsed in the crucial function of mortar fire, which he directed Lt. Witold Grabarczyk, hiding his Akowski origin – he was a soldier of 27 Volhyńska DP AK and benefits, love from these peaceful Ukrainians tasted before in Volyń.
For many years I have participated in celebrations of the anniversary of successive robberies and heroic defenses, which are organized by the municipal authorities sadly watching the crowd shrink, and memory begins to fade. So I decided to remind about our heroes by organizing a spectacle with the participation of reconstructors from Poland and Slovakia. As a curious fact, most of my Slovak friends are Rusini, who have besides experienced the activities of the UPA rezunias in their territory. And someway they don't like them.
The current Mayor Anna Szymaszek with interest, she came to the subject and we started with preparations, and that the municipality did not have a striking budget, announced a collection that allowed to cover the costs of the spectacle, of which all the reconstructors participating in it came without collecting any remuneration for their contribution or reimbursement of travel costs. They did it for an thought and a reminder of these events for which they deserve the deepest respect.
The script was prepared on the basis of an excellent historical survey Dr Artur Brożyniak, an IPN Branch worker in Rzeszów. It's highly important, due to the fact that based on archival documents, it was beyond question by those who I assumed would be looking for a gap in the full thing. And I wasn't wrong.
The silence before the show was amazing. The chauvinist Ukrainian communities have not launched their on-call journalists to avoid advertising the show. They simply learned a lesson from the past of the Radim in 2013 erstwhile the hysteria they started provided us with an audience of 10,000 viewers on site and hundreds of thousands in front of TVs. The subject of genocide in Volyn, held in a balloon of security, was then pierced and the consciousness of Ukrainian savagery penetrated into broad public awareness.
This time they reacted after the show, which shows only that together with the authorities of Bircza we did good and needed work. The press, who asked 6 questions to the authorities of the City and the Municipality of Bircza, published, without waiting for any answer, a material that is simply a mixture of various delusions of the author, whose name I do not mention, due to the fact that she is not worth doing her ad.
The author in her desperation is amazed that no 1 protested, did not object to the scenes that were shown during the show, talks with on-call psychologists (according to the recently introduced psychologists) and the activist industry, which for me is besides a crucial lead from where came the order to compose these nonsense intended to shake Polish consciences. Of course, in the cycle of her delusions, the author uses an inherent and torn out as an old evidence of argument about the ongoing war in Ukraine, feelings, incorrect time, way, etc.
It is not easy to discuss with people who are tasked, receive grants to run profiled portals, provokers, due to the fact that it does not make any sense either. They build their false communicative by playing with human feelings, pity for Ukrainians who present fall victim to war in the east.
Why is the apparatus of propaganda, pressure, subliminal emotional blackmail being launched at specified events?
The explanation is very simple. The propaganda of the national-liberating UPA mission, which has been built in Ukraine for decades, has besides been poured into Poland with buckets of mouths or sold, or simply indecently stupid Polish-speaking politicians, serviceable journalists, publicists or another artificially created "authorities" needs peace and all form of reminder of the criminal, genocide, terrorist activity of this formation disturbs the process of its legitimacy.
It is besides a fear that the Polish society, which is inactive mostly polluted by the propaganda of the mainstream media, will open our eyes to the fact that their hard-earned money, taken in the form of taxes, goes to financing to the virtue of a corrupt country, which spits in our face all step of worshiping genocide killers, bringing them to the memorials, stealing aid there.
However, their top concern is the fact that the Polish society, consciously, resistant to lying propaganda, will yet make the right choices, which will cut them off from influences, impunity, money, demolition of Polish industry, services, will prevent or at least hinder the penetration by Ukrainian intelligence of our country. And here, in my humble opinion, is the dog buried.
What should I do? Acknowledging, awareness and awareness of the public erstwhile again, acting successively in their areas. I do not intend to enter into any controversy with the authors of the aforementioned delusions and uplifts. They're not worth it.
Mirosław Majkowski
Think Poland, No. 7-8 (15-22.02.2026)
