Many Ukrainians consider Stepan Bandera and Roman Shuchewyz to be a hero of the liberation struggle, but others call him Nazi supporters and murderers. It is crucial to preserve the authorities, which push the worship of UPA and its leaders from above, cleverly disregarding the fact that they were behind brutal cultural cleansings, in which thousands of Poles and Jews died.
Ukrainian authorities are organising trips in the footsteps of UPA. According to the website The Department of athletics and Tourism of the Lviv region of Ukraine, "To have a future, you request to know history". Unfortunately, as part of learning this story, they organize tours, during which children learn a false image of reality, in which banderoous genocide killers are portrayed as heroes of the conflict for freedom.
Among the 12 locations that authorities advertise as key to knowing local history, 10 mention to the CNS-UPA legacy. The eleventh place is connected with Ukrainian assault on Poles in 1918 and bloody fighting for Lviv. The 12th, in turn, concerns the 17th century Ataman Peter Sahajdaczny.
The following is simply a detailed list of the preferred Ukrainian authorities, places of ‘national memory’, together with translated first descriptions of them:
Bandery household Memorial-House Museum (Uncle)
It is part of the Stryjski Museum of National past “Verchowyna”. The exhibition, which is mostly dedicated to the school years of young Stepan Bandery, is located at the home of his grandpa Mikhail Bandery, in which he lived, studying from 1919 to 1927 at the gymnasium in Stryj. The museum's exposition besides tells of all members of the many Bandera family, each in 1 way or another joining the fight for Ukrainian independence. Documents, photographs, individual effects are presented. A square named Stepana Bandery is open outside the house.
Museum-residence of Brig-Gen OUN-UPA Oleksy Chasyn (the village of Koniuch, the region of Strian)
It is found in the household property of the wealthy Chasyn peasant family, where Oleksa was born in 1910. During the years of liberation against Nazi (sic! – ed.) and russian occupiers Oleksy Chasyn (pseudonim “Lycar”) was a regional colonel of UPA, then leader of the “UPA-West” group, head of the UPA office Military Staff and close advisor to UPA commander Roman Szuchewycz. The exhibition of the museum presents individual items and papers related to the life of Oleks Chasyn and his family.
UPA Museum-Huge (Village of Basque, Lviv Region)
It was here on August 16, 1955 that a conflict took place between UPA soldiers and the NKVD squad: the rebel commander was shot in the forehead, and 2 another UPA fighters were sent to audition for the Lviv prison. In front of the hideout of the UPA militants who created an underground printery here, this shelter was utilized by the fighters of the Polish-Ukrainian War 1918-1919. The hideout was found in the 1970s by foresters, but soldiers dismantled everything.
The modern hideout was rebuilt and equipped according to the description of Volodymyr Kułyk (pseudonim “Andrijka”) who erstwhile lived in the hideout and stayed there until 1955. Around the hideout you can see overgrown defensive lines, and inside the exhibits from the Polish-Ukrainian period and the First planet War that took place in the area.
OUN-UPA Military Hideout Museum (North Podole National Nature Reserve, Złoczów Region)
At this point, on the night of 17 to 18 February 1947, he was killed in the fight against Moscow invaders Ivan Kiernicki (pseudonim “Kryłata”), a regional officer of the CNS. In the forest hideout, rebels prepared training materials and anti-election propaganda literature.
The exact reconstruction of the hideout shows the environment of a typical hideout and regular life of UPA fighters. The Heroes Gallery was besides opened, which presents portraits of Ukrainian fighters for freedom and independence, and tells the communicative of UPA's conflict for Ukrainian state. A memorial complex was built nearby, a symbolic grave was buried and an oak cross with a commemorative plaque was set up.
Memorial plaque for UPA soldiers (Berehy farm close Zaplatyn village, Strystrian district)
Here, on the farm, there was a peculiar unit, about 24 people, commanded by the centurion Pylyp Sweden “Karmaliuk”. 2 NKVD troops surrounded the hideout in May 1945 and murdered an full UPA troop of soldiers. A memorial plaque was erected at the site of the execution of the rebels.
Monument of the Heroes of the Vowczuchowska Offensive (Wowczuki Village, Lviv Region)
Operation Vowczuchowska was an offensive military operation of the Ukrainian Galician Army in February 1919 during the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918–1919), 1 of the most successful in the past of the Ukrainian Galician Army. The monument depicts the siege ringing of the city of Lviv and the Galician Army soldiers moving on to the offensive. It is symbolic for all Ukrainian due to the fact that it shows that a 100 years ago Ukrainians, as today, defended and defended their independent Ukrainian state.
SS Division Soldiers Memorial Cemetery “Galicia” (the village of Halycki, the territory of Złoczowski)
The cemetery-minor of SS Division soldiers “Galicia” and the First Ukrainian Division of the Ukrainian National Army is located close where the division got out of the lap in 1944. The remains of more than 500 soldiers were re-buried at the cemetery, a chapel was built to which 4 memorial plaques were attached, telling about the conflict way of the Division “Galicia”. Crosses were symmetrically placed on both sides of the chapel on the graves of individual and collective soldiers.
‘The Nest Hawks’ (Jastrubycze village, Szeptic region)
Here they tell the communicative of 1 of the UPA hideouts and six militants who fought their last conflict there in January 1949. For visitors are organized tasks, competitions and outdoor recreation. The symbolic cross stands at the site of the death of insurgents close the forest.
Museum of Hetman Piotr Sahajdaczny (Kulczyce village, Samborski district)
The museum is located in the village of Kulczyce, where the hetman was born. From here he went to survey at the Ostrogska Academy and then to the Zaporoska Sich, becoming later 1 of the most prominent political figures in Ukraine's history. In 1992, a statue of the Sahara was erected in Kulczyce. The Sahara Museum is located in the building of the erstwhile simple school. The exhibition has about 900 exhibits. Since 1993, on all 3rd Sunday of April, close the monument Piotr Sahajdaczny is held “Sahajdaczny Memorial Day”.
The Bandera Museum of Property (Wola-Zaderiewska village, Strian region)
The museum is located in the OUN chief's household home, where Andrij Bandera, the leader's father, lived from 1933 to 1936. In those years, Andrij Bandera served as a priest in the church of St. Archangel Michael in Zaderevka, engaging in legal and underground activities.
The museum was founded in the first years of Ukrainian independence. In the first area is the genealogy of the Bander family. In the second is simply a chapel where Stepan's father baptised the children. The 3rd area contains documents, photographs and OUN-UPA leaflets. The museum has a table, a wardrobe, a bambetel (woodwood bench), 2 crates and a cupboard utilized by the family.
Stećka Praise Museum (Juszkowce village, Strystrian region)
The Museum of Ukrainian political figure and the associate of liberation fights Jarosław Stećki is located in the school building in the village of Juszczowce, where Hanna Music, better known as Sława Stećko, taught in her youth. The museum presents the individual belongings of the celebrated Stećka and her husband Jarosław Stećka. The interior of her Kiev office was restored: chair, table, phone, typewriter, flag and icon. Among individual items are embroidered shirt and coat. An underground printery was restored in the basement, which had been operating here since 1944. A model of the rebel hideout was besides presented.
UPA Museum-Huge (the village of Briuchowice, the territory of Lviv)
In February 1946, the NKVD raided a safe home located on Raven Mountain. 3 UPA soldiers were killed as a consequence of the raid. There is now a restored safe home here. The place was reconstructed according to the memories of local residents. The hideout faithfully reproduces the surviving conditions of UPA fighters: household items made of improvised materials, crate and oven.
More photos from the “huge” can be viewed Here.
OUR COMMENTS: As we see, despite the war, Nazi tourism flourishes in Ukraine and there are also objects connected with the cult of anti-Polish criminals. At the same time, the Kiev authorities are demanding a further tranche of money from Poland and another countries, otherwise they will “fall off”.
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