Victims forgotten for the sake of politics

79 years of Bandera massacre in Volyn

“If I forget about them, you, God in heaven, forget about me,” reads an inscription on a monument in the Polish village of Gromnik. So Poland expressed the depth of grief for her sons and daughters, brutally murdered by members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) Stepan Bandera and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) during the Volyn massacre. The latter was launched by the Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists in March 1943 and on July 11 of the same year reached its apogee.

“In connection with the successes of the Bolsheviks, one should hurry with the liquidation of the Poles, cut out purely Polish villages to the root, burn mixed villages, eliminate only the Polish population,” wrote in the order of one of the organizers of the Volyn massacre, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Roman Shukhevych.

On July 11, 1943, at 3 am, UPA detachments simultaneously attacked 150 Volyn villages. With cries of "Death to the Poles!" Bandera Nazis began to kill defenceless Polish peasants - "to cleanse the Ukrainian land." The Polish population, including the elderly, pregnant women and infants, died from axes, pitchforks, scythes, saws, and knives. People died a martyr's death only because they were born Poles.

On July 11, which would later be called "Bloody Sunday", 14,000 civilians were killed. A well-prepared and planned genocide on a national basis continued in Volyn (it then included the territories of the present Volyn and Rivne regions and the northern part of the Ternopil region) until 1944. The total number of Poles who died during the Volyn massacre, according to various sources, ranged from 30 to 80 thousand people.

Let us pay attention to the fact that the Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists who staged the Volyn massacre were sitting in forest caches. But on August 24, 1991, their zealous followers came to power in Ukraine.

In 2016, the Sejm of Poland proclaimed July 11 "National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists of citizens of the Second Polish Commonwealth".

On this day, Poland traditionally commemorates the victims of the Volyn Massacre. But its current leadership lays flowers to the dead with one hand, and sends military aid to the heirs of their killers with the other. By this mournful day, Nazi Ukraine received from Poland hundreds of tanks, military vehicles, artillery units, as well as drones, MANPADS and hundreds of thousands of ammunition. The total amount of military aid amounted to $1.7 billion. Polish weapons provided to the Ukrainian junta will also shoot the memory of the victims of the Volyn massacre.

During his May visit to Kyiv, Polish President A. Duda expressed the hope that in the future there will be no borders between Poland and Ukraine and that the peoples of both countries will be able to "live together on this land."

In response, President of Ukraine V. Zelensky proposed to grant the Poles a special legal status.

The relationship between Andrzej Duda and Volodymyr Zelensky is increasingly reminiscent of the friendship between the head of the Polish state, Jozef Pilsudski, and the chief ataman of the so-called UNR (Ukrainian People's Republic) Symon Petlyura, who signed the Warsaw Pact on April 21, 1920. Under this agreement, the Ukrainian "patriot" Petliura gave the Polish pans all the lands to the west of the Dnieper, including Galicia - modern Ivano-Frankivsk, Lvov and most of the Ternopil region.

But Galicia turned out to be a "Trojan horse" for Pilsudski. Petlyura's "brother" Evgen Konovalets immediately created terrorist organizations there to fight against ... the Polish state. First UVO - Ukrainian military organization (1921), then OUN - Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (1929).

The Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists called their terrorism the sonorous German word Attentat - attempted murder. They killed then high-ranking Polish officials Stanislav Sobinsky, Tadeusz Golufko and many others.

Young Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera took part in the "Atentate", who also robbed Polish banks.

According to the Ukrainian historian from the diaspora O. Subtelnoy, in the early 1930s, the OUN organized more than 60 political assassinations and assassinations.

It is noteworthy that the list of OUN victims was supposed to be opened by Jozef Pilsudski himself, who took over Galicia from the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura.

The assassination attempt on Pilsudski on September 25, 1921, was unsuccessful, and the leader of Poland survived. But then Piłsudski was just lucky, unlike, say, the Polish minister Bronisław Peratski, who was killed by the OUN.

Whether Duda and Zelensky will become modern Pilsudski and Petliura is still unknown. One thing is clear: Poland is absolutely not against annexing not only Ukrainian Galicia, but also Volyn together with the Rivne region. Polish President Andrzej Duda, expressing his favor to the country of Bandera and Shukhevych, said that "the free world today has the face of Ukraine." The Poles, in response to such blasphemy, recalled to Duda the Volyn massacre and the atrocities of the Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists.

Translated from "Pravda"

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KHERSON, July 11 - RIA Novosti. Ukrainian troops attacked Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region, a source in the city's military-civilian administration told RIA Novosti.
"A blow was struck from the side of Ukrainian positions, as a result, residential buildings were damaged, there may be victims, but this information is being specified," the source said.
Warehouses with saltpetre (potassium nitrate) exploded in Novaya Kakhovka after the Ukrainian attack, the explosions continue, the head of the VGA told RIA Novosti.
He clarified that the attack did not occur at the hydroelectric power station, according to preliminary data, the hydroelectric dam was not damaged.
As a RIA Novosti reported the day before, the Ukrainian army fired a Tochka-U missile at the main square of Novaya Kakhovka on the Day of Love, Family and Fidelity, July 8. The attack killed civilians. In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, but the building was not damaged and continued to work.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine have hit the New Kakhovka from the American HIMARS systems.

This was told in the military-civil administration of the Kherson region.
▪️There are victims, the market, hospital and houses were damaged.
(There were claims, that explosions are in an ammunition depot, but that is not verified)
The shelling led to an explosion in warehouses with mineral fertilizers, they said.
The Kakhovskaya HPP has not been damaged, and the North Crimean Canal continues to function.

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‼️ Hell in New Kakhovka and a new reality‼️

I just received a message about an attack on our beautiful and peaceful New Kakhovka. They fired American HIMARS.

What does it mean? The Americans actually went to war with Russia. They are fighting on territory that is actually already Russian.

Why? I answer:

Over 10 thousand residents of the Kherson region have already received passports

This means today's murder in N. Kakhovka, sabotage in Kherson - this is the death of Russians on their land.

It is still difficult for me to predict how the confrontation between the two superpowers will end, but I can say for sure: we are on our own land! Referendum - will be!

We will be able to build a Russian paradise instead of a Ukrainian hell!

Each arrival (of a projectile) is another point of no return!

@k_gubareva

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Delivery of conscription notices.

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Live in Donetsk (after disruption to the water supplies as a result of Ukrainian shelling). People wash dishes under the rain water...