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UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE AGAINST POLES DOWNPLAYED [57]
I wasn't talking about UPA as they didn't kill civilians. I was talking about peasants who lived through hell.
Now you are presenting Volhynia slaughter as some spontaneous outburst of frustration among Ukrainian peasants ?
Nice try but not quite true.
No doubts about their frustration - II Rzeczpospolita wasn't milk and honey land for Ukrainians - but the decision was prepared and taken by
elite of OUN/UPA.
They decided to start ethnic cleansing in Western Ukraine and mass killings in Volhynia.
And they weren't for sure poor peasants but some well educated politicians.
If you are looking for analogies with Polish Interbellum it's like Pilsudski would have decided to kill all Ukrainians in order to get rid of rebels, terrorists, troublemakers.
Or maybe only those of them living in ethnic Poland , Cracow for example ?
BTW. Do you know Bandera asked Hitler to
"give" him Cracow ?
I see some similarity to the first years of Pilsudski - OUN made kind of underground but
the only legitime authorities and today they are national heroes for some Ukrainians (by far not for all of them - UNA/UNSO result was
under 0.5% voters).
But there were some differences as well.
In spite of his tendencies for dictatorship he wasn't a mass murder.