Within the multiple tragedies of WWII, what happened in Eastern Europe are among the cruelest and bloodiest. Curiously, today homage is paid to genocidal people such as the Ukrainian Bandera and to Nazis in the artificial Batic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
We are going to remember some drops of the sea of blood that they committed.
From the book
FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE. "Volyn massacre" 1943-1944. Documents and research
Alexander Dyukov.Alexei Yakovlev
In the spring of 1943, a large-scale ethnic cleansing began in Volyn, occupied by German troops. This criminal action was carried out not by the Nazis, but by the militants of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, who sought to "cleanse" the territory of Volhynia from the Polish population. Ukrainian nationalists surrounded Polish villages and colonies and then proceeded to kill. They killed everyone: women, old people, children, babies. The victims were shot, beaten with clubs, hacked down with axes. Then the corpses of the destroyed Poles were buried somewhere in the field, their property was stolen, and finally the houses were burned down. In place of Polish villages, only burnt-out ruins remained.
They also destroyed the Poles who lived in the same villages as the Ukrainians. It was even easier - there was no need to collect large detachments. Groups of multi-person OUN members passed through the sleeping village, entered the houses of the Poles and killed everyone. And then the locals buried the murdered neighbors of the "wrong" nationality.
In this way, several tens of thousands of people were murdered, whose only fault was that they were born Poles and lived on Ukrainian soil.
65 years after these tragic events, they are trying to forget about the victims of Ukrainian nationalists in both Poland and Ukraine. It is understandable why the Volyn tragedy is consigned to oblivion in Ukraine: the OUN-UPA militants, who actively and brutally destroyed the Volyn Poles, were declared "national heroes" by modern Ukrainian authorities and one of the main organizers of the Volyn Massacre. , Roman Shukhevych, received the title of Hero of Ukraine. However, things are not much better in Poland either. The Polish authorities constantly bring claims against Russia in connection with the execution of Polish officers in Katyn, however, the OUN-UPA militants do not seek to recall the much more massive destruction of Polish civilian citizens. On the 65th anniversary of the Volyn massacre, the Polish Sejm rejected a draft resolution prepared by the Polish Peasant Party, in which the OUN and UPA were accused of genocide and massacres of Poles and Ukrainians. Polish President Lech Kaczynski did not participate in the events dedicated to this date, limiting himself to a letter of duty to his participants. In addition, the head of the Polish state generally refused patronage of "Volyn events".
Historical amnesia is a serious disease typical of politicians. However, the prevalence does not make it any less disgusting. The desire to speculate on some of their victims while forgetting about others; the transformation of cruel murderers into national heroes is petty and insulting to all those who died sixty-five years ago.
Interrogation by the Russian army of Ukrainian murderers
5. From the interrogation protocol of the UPA militant Vladimir Dubinchuk, August 6, 1944
Question: He is accused of the crimes that he committed under art. Art. 54-1 "a" and 54-11 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR. Does he plead guilty to the charges against him?
Answer: Yes, in the accusation against me under art. Art. 54-1 "a" and 54-11 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, I plead fully guilty and, on the merits of the case, prove that, living in the German-occupied with. Svichev, Ovadnovsky district, Volyn region, really was in June 1943 a stanitsa in the village. Svichev Tsibulya Dmitry participated in the OUN as a liaison and, on his instructions, for about four months he delivered the OUN correspondence to Gud Andrei and the people. Vladislavovka to Joseph Lupinka.
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| Ukrainians parading in front of the Germans |
In the summer of 1943, actually, he was armed with a rifle in town. Svichev from the Ovadnovsky district, together with the OUN bandits, participated in the massacre of Soviet citizens of Polish nationality. It was under the following circumstances: in the summer of 1943, I do not remember the exact date, in the morning the chief Tsibulya Dmitry summoned me to the village council and instructed me to go to the road not far from the church and wait for a cart with OUN bandits who would come from the Vladimir-Volynsky region, and when they arrive, sit in their wagons and point out the houses where Poles live, including the task of pointing out to the bandits the property of Dmitri Ilyashuk.
Pursuant to Dmitry Tsibul's order, I took a rifle with me and went to the indicated place to wait for the bandits. At approximately 11 p.m. Svichev arrived in a car with five or six OUN gang members, who were armed with rifles. I personally recognized Joseph Lupinka from the village among the bandits. Vladislavovka, Vladimir-Volynsky district and Vasily from the village. Khobolitov, the rest of the bandits were not familiar to me. When I met with the bandits, I sat in a cart with them and drove them to the property of a village resident. Svichev - Il-yashuk Dmitry.
When we reached the Ilyashuk yard, Korchik Ivan and the second, armed with a rifle, I don't know his last name, who lived in the village at that time, were already there. Svichev, armed with a sawed-off rifle.
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| Polish children killed by the Ukrainians |
Arriving in the courtyard, the bandits from the Ilyashuk estate discovered the Poles Rusetsky and Kryshtov, who were taken to Ilyashuk's unfinished house and shot there. I personally did not see how they were shot, because I was in the yard near the car, and when they were killed, I went to look at them. Then I learned from the bandits that Ivan Korchik shot Rusetsky, and the bandit Vasily shot Kryshtov. After the execution of these two Poles, Dmitry Ilyashuk came home, who invited all the participants in the pogrom, including me, to the apartment, where he treated me to vodka and dinner. After dinner, all the troublemakers, including me, went to the estate of Savitsky Olesko, who lived next door to Ilyashuk. I don't remember which of the bandits took Olesko Savitsky, his mother and his sister Bronislava out of the apartment into the courtyard, whom I shot in the courtyard on the orders of the bandit Lupinok.
After the execution of the Savitsky family, all the above-mentioned pogromists, including me, sat in a cart and went to kill Poles in the Yadvigov colony of the Svichevsky village council.
Arriving at the colony, we drove to the estate of the Pole Kishko, where the old man Kishko himself was in the yard, and he was blind. All the bandits were sitting in one cart, I entered the courtyard and shot this old man from the rifle that he had, after which, leaving the corpse in his place, we all went to the house of Anton Soshinsky.
We searched Soshinsky's house, but did not find anyone. After that, we came to the house of the Pole Pnyak, who lived at the end of the colony. When we began to drive to this estate, we noticed that several Poles ran out of Pnyak's house in the direction of the forest, we all jumped out of the cart and began to chase the fleeing and opened fire on them. However, at that time we did not manage to kill and catch up with any of the Poles, as they hid in the forest. After that, we searched the property of Pnyak.
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| Poles killed by the Ukrainians |
When we returned to Svichev, I don't remember, someone told us that his children were hiding in Anton Soshinsky's house. Bandit Lupinka gave me the order to kill these children. When the accomplices were near the car, I ran to the house of Anton Soshinsky and shot a boy of about five years old. There were two other children in the room, but the cartridge I had left failed. After that, I left the apartment and reported this to Joseph Lupinka, who gave me two cartridges and an order to kill these children. I entered the room for the second time and shot the second child, about two years old. At that moment, Iosif Lupinka entered the apartment and, in my presence, shot the third child, who was between 6 and 7 years old.
After the execution of the sons of Soshinsky Anton, I, together with the bandits, returned to the village. Svichev, and we immediately went to the estate of the citizen Yarmolinskaya Mayevskaya. Lupinka Iosif Maevskaya and I were found in a neighboring house, after which she was taken to her property, where I personally shot her. We also leave this corpse on the spot and go to the building of the village council. Bandits Lupinka Iosif, Vasily Torchilo, Golumbitsky, I don't even know the last name went to the Polish cemetery. There, Lupinka and Torchilo killed a Dobrovolskaya citizen, whose corpse was also left on the spot. On her way back, Lupinka entered the priest's house, took the housekeeper, after which he took her to the neighboring estate and shot her in the same courtyard. After this murder, all the bandits of Vl. - The Volynsky district got into a cart and left in the direction of the Bozhya Volya colony. This was the end of the pogrom of the Poles in the village. Svichev.
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