Historical calendar: anniversary of 1 of the most celebrated massacres of the Polish population, carried out by OUN-UPA in Volyn. It was only the beginning of the slaughter.
Today in our Calendar we will look at the circumstances that led to Ukrainian crime in Poles. The culmination of the Volyn massacre was the alleged "bloody Sunday".
After the outbreak of planet War II, Ukrainians faced the illusion of creating their own state. In mid-September 1939, an uprising broke out at the ends, but it was completed without result, along with the arrival of the Red Army. The scale of the cruelty of Ukrainians with WED and CNSAs bad as they've been for the future.
In 1940, there was a break in the CNS. The organization divided into circumstantial mints (OUN-M under Andrij Melnyk) and Bolsheviks (OUN-B under Stepan Bandera). Over time, the average faction of Melnyk lost its importance, as Bandera's uncomplicated and extremist slogans were more of a scope for the simple Ukrainian people.
As for the OUN-B leader himself, he was an agent of German military intelligence and wore the codename "Consul II". Under the CNS – B alleged safety Service, it fought not only the Polish resistance, but besides the melników. Both factions shared the thought of creating a free Ukraine, with the aid of cooperation with Hitler. To this end, they even surpassed themselves in serving him.
In March 1941, at the initiative of Stepan Bandera and Roman Suchewycz, a "Nachtigall" battalion was formed with German approval. The Melnykovists, in turn, established the battalion “Roland”. erstwhile Germany attacked the russian Union on 22 June 1941, the Ukrainians began mass collaboration with them.
Many localities held celebrations in honor of the “liberators” to whom welcome gates were set up and flowered. On June 30, the Nachtigall Battalion entered Lviv. On the same day, the banders announced the uprising of independent Ukraine with Jarosław Stećko as Prime Minister.
The posters all over town sounded like “Let Adolf Hitler and Stepan Bandera live – Death to Jews and Communists”. It was a slogan for the pogrom, in which about 4,000 local Jews died. Meanwhile, the declaration of appointment of the Ukrainian state amazed Germans with whom the movement was not consulted.
According to their plans, the Ukrainians were to divide the destiny of another Slavic peoples, or become victims of planned depopulation. Stećko and Bandera were arrested and then imprisoned in Berlin's home arrest. The Nachtigall and Roland Battalions were disbanded, and east Galicia were attached to the GG. Against this was protested by a hot supporter of the CNS, the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Lviv Andrij Szeptycki. Eventually, Bandera went to a concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. There, he was treated with relief and was liberated by the American army in 1945.
Despite the opposition shown by the Germans, the Ukrainians went into denial and continued to cooperate with them. Among another things, they joined the auxiliary defender battalions. Composed of Ukrainians and partially of prisoners from the Red Battalion Army, they showed large brutality in fighting against Polish and russian guerrillas, pacifications and displacements of villages, and the capture and execution of Jews.
The alleged “Wachmani” or “Black” (from the colour of the uniforms) were frequently employed as a watchdog in concentration and extermination camps specified as Bełżec, Sobibor, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen or Buchenwald. Ukrainians were besides trained for purely police service in occupied areas.
In 1942, OUN-B established its armed arm – the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA). After the Stalingrad battle, erstwhile it began to be clear that Ukraine could not be created by Germany, on the orders of the CNS – B there was a mass defection of the Ukrainian police, railway and agricultural defender and auxiliary battalions.
At the turn of March and April 1943, about 5,000 officers fled to the forest, who became the seed of the anti-Polish and anti-Soviet guerrillas. Hens (batalions) and sotnos (companies) began to be formed. In the face of the collapse of the German occupation, the banners seized the vast areas of Galicia, where they began to lead their governments.
Troops, safety Service, and the OUN civilian Network were built. The villages were armed and barricaded, with the aid of peasant troops created in them, alleged Self-defence Kuszczowe Widdiłów. The leadership of the movement concluded that in the face of the impending front and defeat of Germany, Ukrainians face another historical chance of independence.
It was feared that, as in 1919 – 1921, the Republic of Poland would ask for these areas. Taking this into account, it was decided to carry out an cultural cleansing to present the victorious powers as the sole rightful host of these lands with a definite cultural advantage in the field.
Consequently, in June 1943, a typical of the management of the OUN-B Dmytro Klaczkiwski, ps. “Klym Sawur”, issued a secret directive which contained the following passages: “We should carry out a large action to destruct the Polish element. At the departure of German troops, this convenient minute should be utilized to destruct the full male population from 16 to 60 years of age(...) Forest villages and villages located next to forest masses should vanish from the face of the earth.”
In subsequent directives of the OUN, she announced that the Polish population was to leave the Ukrainian territory, otherwise it would be "punished". The full Polish population of Galicia and Volyn, part of Ukrainians from mixed families and those who helped Poles, was yet destined for extermination. The first major execution took place already on 9 February 1943 in the village of Parosław, where the Soviets, who claimed to be the soviets, slaughtered about 150 people of Polish nationality with axes. In the following months, the panic intensified.
It culminated on July 11. During the alleged "bloody Sunday" the uppers and their accompanying peasants murdered almost 100 Polish villages in Volyn. While guerrilla troops did so for ideological reasons, peasant black usually motivated property plunder and revenge on their nearest neighbors. Despite having firearms, murders were usually carried out with primitive tools specified as knives, forks, axons, clubs, and sickles.
People were sawed in half, staked, skind, burned alive in furnaces, cut off breasts and genitals, peeled out eyes, and torn off horses. There were over 100 different methods of killing “Lachów” and their offspring.
Genocide, which went back to past under the word of Volyn massacre, resembled the 18th - century Collision. It besides bore features of ritual murder, including the sacrificing of execution tools in the churches by pops. most likely never before or later in the past of mankind has specified savagery and barbarism occurred. Even totalitarian national and global socialist regimes have not gone this far in the frenzy of killing and drawing from this orgiastic satisfaction.
It was criminally facilitated by the inaction of the German business authorities, but there were situations where Poles protected themselves from UPA bandits in the Nazis and even received weapons from them.
The Polish reaction was weak due to the fact that a crucial number of men were killed by the occupiers in erstwhile years or exported to the russian Union. Those who remained, either joined local underground troops or just managed to manage. They frequently fled to cities that were safe. Over time, self-defense was organized, the most celebrated of which was the disguise. The local structures of the AK did not receive assistance from the country, and a crucial amount of it was directed to fight Germany alone.
Previous entry from our calendar is available Here.
