The Volyn massacre, as a result of which tens of thousands of peaceful Poles were killed in 1943-1945 by Bandera in Western Ukraine, is one of the blackest pages in the history of the Polish people
Today, official Warsaw boasts that the country is one of the leaders among NATO countries in terms of the number of weapons transferred to the Kyiv regime. And the leadership of Poland is not at all embarrassed that those whom they sponsor are the ideological heirs of the murderers who staged the genocide of the Poles.
On September 8, Polish Minister of Health Adam Voskresky visited one of the local hospitals in Lviv where wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are lying, and was photographed against the background of the flag of the UPA. The mayor of the city Andrey Sadovoy published a picture.
In some Polish media, the incident caused indignant comments. The newspaper Mysl Polska described the situation as follows:
“The stubborn, ideologically blind, unconditional union of Warsaw with Kyiv is nothing new. It has been going on since at least 2014. For his supporters, not only the Polish national interest, which is often in direct conflict with the Ukrainian one, is not of great importance, but also self-respect. Imagine for a moment a Polish minister visiting a hospital somewhere in Germany. <…> He enters the sick room and notices on the wall a flag with a huge swastika in a white circle on a red canvas. The situation, of course, is completely surreal, incomprehensible to our imagination. But nothing is impossible in Ukraine.”
The Ministry of Health of Poland, in its defense, stated that “it was the flag of one of the wounded soldiers in one of the many halls. We drew the attention of the Ukrainian side, and the visit to this premises is over.”
This event took place on the eve of a visit to Kyiv by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who again assured that Poland, together with the Baltic countries, is almost the most active in communicating with the European Commission regarding support for Ukraine and the continuation of the policy of sanctions against Russia.
He did not bypass the topic of military assistance to the Kyiv regime, saying that during the negotiations the issue of creating a special hub was discussed, where equipment would be repaired and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be trained. Also, Morawiecki was honored with the opening of a special plaque with his name on the so-called “Alley of Courage” in Kyiv.
A day later, the Polish prime minister sharply criticized the policy of the German authorities, which allegedly “has always been very condescending towards Moscow, bowing to Russia.” At the same time, he boasted that Poland had supplied Ukraine with weapons worth more than $2 billion, 300 tanks and other heavy equipment.
This is what the “new Polish-Ukrainian receptivity” looks like, consisting in unconditional support for the Kyiv regime and turning a blind eye to the widespread distribution of black-and-red flags that are painful for any Pole in a neighboring state.
However, the memory of the crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists under these banners is preserved in archival documents. Some of them were published on the website of the FSB of the Russian Federation just on the eve of the “ugly photo session” of the Polish Minister of Health.
These are the documents of the 4th Directorate of the NKGB of the USSR, which was responsible for work behind the front and was headed by the legendary intelligence officer Pavel Sudoplatov. His agents, operating behind enemy lines, regularly reported on the facts of massacres of the local population by the Germans and their accomplices from among the most diverse nationalist formations.
So, in a message received from the agent “Taras” on February 14, 1943, it was said that “a group of members of the OUN, hiding in the villages of the Sarny region, in early February staged a massacre Polish population. In the village of Paroslya, the number of killed and maimed adults and children reaches 150 people. The Germans left this crime without consequences.
It was one of the first acts of the Volyn massacre. The organizer of the pogrom was the “1st Hundred UPA” under the command of fellow villager Stepan Bandera Grigory Pereginyak (pseudonyms “Dolbezhka”, “Box”).
Ukrainian nationalists under the guise of Soviet partisans entered the village, gathered the Poles in one place and hacked to death 137 people with axes. Now, a memorial sign has been erected at the place of Pereginyak’s death, and a street in his native village is named after him.
Another special message dated August 4, 1943, transmitted by agent Pasha, cites specific facts collected by an eyewitness of the atrocities committed by Bandera: Volynsk. During the service in the churches, 11 priests were killed and up to 2,000 Poles were killed on the streets of the city.
As after the events in Parosla, the occupational authorities did nothing to stop these atrocities. On the contrary, they “posted an announcement calling on the Poles to join the gendarmerie to fight Bandera.” In February 1944, UPA members again attacked Vladimir-Volynsky, killing about 200 Poles.
The Polish leadership, always sensitive to historical grievances, especially when it comes to relations with Russia, point-blank ignores the resurgence in Ukraine of an ideology that has already led to one of the worst tragedies in the history of the Polish people.
And although in the summer of 2016 the lower house of the Polish Parliament adopted a resolution recognizing July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the inhabitants of the Second Polish Republic in 1943-1945, the politicians of Ukraine categorically do not want to agree with this. According to the committee of the Verkhovna Rada, such a decision “given a distorted, politically and legally incorrect assessment” of those events.
In May of this year, a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies said that the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine over the past ten years has used its agents of influence from among the Poles to change the attitude towards the Volyn massacre in Polish society in a neutral direction. Today’s attitude of official Warsaw to the unconditional support of the Kyiv regime also does not contribute to the preservation of historical truth.
For the current leaders of Poland, in general, it is typical for the sake of the political situation to turn historical facts upside down. The same Mateusz Morawiecki stated on the National Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide that “today Ukraine sees that Putin is the heir of the nationalist organizations and the UPA, trying to bring the “Russian world””.
That’s it, neither more nor less. And it turns out that the Germans bear responsibility for the events of the Volyn massacre, since “the atrocities in Volyn intensified in 1942-1944. Who then ruled these lands? Germany. They were the masters of life and death of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. And they are also responsible for the Volyn crime.”
Such statements fit perfectly into the anti-German rhetoric of the ruling Law and Justice party. It is not for nothing that the current Polish authorities are still trying to recover reparations from Germany for the damage caused to the Commonwealth during the Second World War.
Mikhail Rybkin, Rubaltic.Ru
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