According to the Polish outlet «wPolityce», 76 years have passed since nationalists from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army marked a horrendous ethnic cleansing called Volyn Massacre. And in memory of the victimsa memorial was opened in the Polish city of Szczecin.
The opening took place on Saturday, February 9, on the anniversary of the attack of the Ukrainian Nazis on the village of Paroslya, during which about 150 people were killed. Historians consider this incident the beginning of the tragic “Volyn Massacre”, and the killing of the Poles did not stop until the end of World War II.
“It seems that after Auschwitz, after Palmyra, Katyn and Kolyma, we know what evil is, but the genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Malopolska showed us its completely a new cruel appearance. We will never reveal this secret, because it’s hard to imagine how, in the head — not in the soul — by suppressing conscience, something could force us to take axes and rush at defenseless people, women, and young children,” said the head of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Jaroslav Sharek, speaking at the opening ceremony.