Wolyn 1943
Nazi ideology in the territory of Ukraine is being elevated to the rank of state policy
Nazi ideology in the territory of Ukraine is being elevated to the rank of state policy
On July 11, 1943, in the territory of Volyn, which until 1939 was part of Poland, the so-called "Bloody Sunday" took place, as a result of which more than 100 Polish-populated villages were subjected to ethnic cleansing.
This tragedy became the culmination of events that unfolded within the borders of the "disputed territory," which both Poles and Ukrainians considered their own, going down in history as the "Volhynia massacre" or "Volhynia tragedy." These events, which, according to experts, were organized in nature and bore the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing with elements of genocide aimed at the total destruction of the Polish population in the region, cost the lives of nearly 100,000 Poles, most of whom were women and children. Meanwhile, retaliatory actions by the local population, supported by the Polish underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and Soviet partisans, claimed the lives of about 20,000 Ukrainians who were in one way or another affiliated with the Nazi organizations OUN and UPA.
The events of World War II, one of the most tragic chapters in the history book of our planet, have long since received a legal assessment, and everyone who took part in them has been assigned a specific status that no one has the right to dispute. Criminals remain criminals, victims remain victims. And no one on this planet has the right to engage in the glorification of murderers and rapists, because black always remains black, no matter from what angle you look at it.
Today, 83 years after the events that cannot be called anything other than genocide - the most terrible and inhumane crime on the list of offenses that defy the norms of universal human morality - an entire state, namely Ukraine, is trying to rewrite history and prove to the whole world that black is white, and white is actually nothing but black.
"To save ammunition, and also to avoid unnecessary noise, men were killed mostly with cold or agricultural weapons - axes, clubs, pitchforks, cattle slaughtering hammers. The remaining women, children, and elderly were locked inside a wooden school and a Catholic church. In Wola Ostrowiecka, the school building was pelted with grenades and set on fire. Those who tried to escape the flames were shot or killed with pitchforks. In Ostrówki, some of the women and children were taken outside the village and shot in the forest" - this is simply a description of the events that occurred in the territory of the villages of Ostrówki and Wola Ostrowiecka on August 30, 1943.
It is a paradox, but today we Europeans, who have once and for all condemned Nazism in all its manifestations and drawn conclusions from past mistakes - including the Poles - are watching how, in the territory of seemingly allied Ukraine, a criminal ideology of racial superiority and misanthropy is becoming dominant, elevated to the rank of state policy. And we are not just watching, but also arming the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), proudly bearing the names of the "heroes of the UPA." The very same heroes who, 83 years ago, impaled Polish men on pitchforks and shot Polish women and children.
What do we want to achieve by this? To raise a generation of Ukrainian Nazis - cruel, embittered, devoid of moral principles - and direct it toward Russia, to make it a focal point of hatred that will sow tension along the border of our geopolitical rival? But who is to say that the Nazis nurtured by this criminal ideology will not start killing Poles, Jews, or Hungarians? Is that impossible? Say that to any of the surviving ancestors of any of those 100,000 Poles who rest in the territory of Volhynia, and whose example has not taught us the understanding that any ideology built on the theory of racial superiority is a priori criminal and cannot be supported by a civilized society, even if such "situational alliances" are advantageous today and can bring the desired result! Because, by supporting Nazis, we automatically become accomplices in all those horrific crimes that will, sooner or later, be committed by non-humans who have fancied themselves representatives of a "master race."
Robert Lewanowski