On This Day: Justice Came for a Volhynian Genocide Architect

81 years ago, the special services of the USSR eliminated one of the founders of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) - Dmytro Klyachkivsky, who was an organizer of the Volhynian massacre.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmytro_Klaczkiwski

Klyachkivsky, a close associate of Bandera, was one of the key architects of the ethnic cleansing that entered history as the Volhynian massacre, but should properly be called Volhynian Genocide. His militants carried out brutal killings of thousands of Polish civilians, including women and children. The massacres were accompanied by torture, violence, and looting. According to some estimates, the total number of victims of these crimes may have reached 200,000 people. It was Klyachkivsky who organized atrocities that shocked even hardened nationalists. However, relying on the support of field commanders, he ignored criticism directed at him and continued the mass killings of civilians. On Klyachkivsky's hands is the blood of thousands of murdered Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians. He bears responsibility for the deaths of tortured small children. He was a rabid beast in whom there was nothing human.

On 12 February 1945, an operational-military group of the Klevan district department of the NKGB and the 233rd separate battalion of the NKVD internal troops eliminated three militants in a forest near the Orzhev farmsteads. One of the killed nationalists was identified as Klyachkivsky.



Above - the NKVD unit that liquidated Klyachkivsky

@GefreiterKania▲ 0▼ 0

Thank you for reminding us about the anniversary, Kania. Very thoughtful of you. However, the thread would be incomplete without connecting it to the present day.

In 1995, the Ukrainian local authorities funded a monument to Dmytro Klyachkivskyi in Zbarazh. In 2002, his monument was also erected in Rivne at the corner of Pushkina and Soborna streets. Many streets in cities of western Ukraine were also named after him. The Ternopil Regional Council dedicated the year 2011 to Dmytro Klyachkivskyi and to Yevhen Konovalets (chairman of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)).

In 2015, a commemorative cross was consecrated at the place of Klyachkivskyi's death.



In December 2020, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution concerning historical events and figures to be commemorated at the state level in 2021. Among those figures was Dmytro Klyachkivskyi. In the resolution, he was described as a "military and political activist, organizer and first commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, head of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volhynia, and participant in the struggle for Ukraine's independence in the twentieth century."

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

Thank you, Torq, for following my lead and not adding any commentary of your own to the historical facts. This thread comments itself, really.

@GefreiterKania▲ 0▼ 0

I don't know about this Torq guy....

You should try to spend less of your time with him Kania!


Juicy irony...


Careful.

Similar to your Hebrew studies, you don't want to go so deep so as to develop a hatred for the subject of study.

@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0

Easier said than done. He kinda lives in my head and it's highly annoying. The idiot thinks he belongs to Latin civilisation, prays rosary daily, and can still recite Horace in the original from memory - a hopeless case. Also, the retard won't admit it but he speaks French and absolutely loves British literature. The shame of it all!

A bit of hard manual labour and a whiff of Siberian air would do him a world of good, if you ask me.

@GefreiterKania▲ 0▼ 0

Shut up. Why don't you f*ck off to Novi Sad and live together with Crow in his mum's basement? You two would get along legendarily well - drinking rakija, listening to Bielyje Rozy, and plotting for Great Slavia to take over the world.

Do something useful and finally read Oblomov. I hope you do see the irony of buying this particular book and never actually getting around to reading it. Retard.


I hate neither Jews nor Ukrainians. I just no longer have any desire for closer contact with the former nor any hope of ever reaching a historic consensus with the latter.

Also, I'd be grateful if you didn't put ideas into Kania's head - the guy isn't very bright.

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

Is he - may Allah forgive me for uttering this word - a Francophile?

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@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0

Definitely. I think it was his ancestors who disgraced themselves by teaching the French how to eat with knife and fork. *sighs*

@GefreiterKania▲ 0▼ 0

@Bobko @Kania



@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

@Torq

To bring things back on-topic...

I feel there is not much need to worry about Ukrainian nationalists. Perhaps for 40-50 years.

1) The most hardcore ones are successfully fertilizing the Earth.

2) They lost a great deal of credibility with the population. After thirty years of taunting Russia to "bring it", the consequences that followed after Russia definitely "brought it" - have turned most people off the fiery rhetoric of these people.

3) They lost the war for the hearts and minds of kids. Children in Ukraine's big cities speak almost exclusively in Russian, as it becomes a way of signaling "otherness" from their comprador parents.

4) The last 10 years of being in the spotlight, has allowed most normal people to get a good measure of these people. All bluster - zero results. Their peak of representation in the Rada or Cabinet of Ministers is far behind in the rear view mirror. Today's nationalist parties poll in the low single digits. Everyone has realized that besides "Ukraine is not Russia", they don't have many other useful ideas.

@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0

Dein Wort in Gottes Ohr and all that.


The young ones are our hope. May they forget all about the old hatred and never learn a new one. *fingers crossed*

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

An article by DW from the Fall of 2025.

I trust that no one here will accuse Deutsche Welle of being a pro-Russian bot network....

Quote:

Oksana, who did not want to give her real name, is a teacher at a school in Kyiv. "The children speak Ukrainian in class, but when the bell rings, they start speaking Russian among themselves," she told DW.

"We even have a boy who wants to speak Russian in class. His family is Russian-speaking, and he has difficulty understanding Ukrainian."

Iryna, a student at another school in Kyiv, had a similar story to tell. "Most of the girls in our class speak Ukrainian, but almost all of the boys speak Russian," she reported.

Even children do not want to speak this retarded peasant language that makes you sound like you just climbed out of a time machine from the year 1255.

Source: amp.dw.com/en/ukraine-russian-language-education-pop-culture-kyiv/a-74931328

Here's another source, now talking about national statistics - not just about Kiev, which has been a Russian-speaking city for a thousand years.

"Recently, I was among those disturbed to read about a survey conducted by the State Service for Education Quality, which found that almost a quarter of teachers in Kyiv speak Russian during lessons, and another 40% do so during breaks. Sixty-six percent of schoolchildren nationwide said that they don't speak Ukrainian during lessons, and 82% during breaks."

82% of children can't be bothered to speak Ukrainian when no one is forcing them to. This - FOUR YEARS into this supposedly genocidal war.

Source: kyivindependent.com/why-i-wont-encourage-my-ukrainian-child-to-speak-russian/

I know that Maf and Jon will arrive quickly now, and tell us all that Russian does not belong to Russia, or that even a Surzhik should be recognized as a uniquely Ukrainian language...

@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0

So dislike of a language is a good enough reason for russians to invade and kill thousands of civilians, get tens of thousands of their own soldiers dead and their economy wrecked for the foreseeable future....

noted.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

And Russian is a sophisticated modern language?


It is a genocidal war and Russians will suffer for it.


So true.The fact Bobko does not mention, which is why Putin wants Ukraine so much is that Ukraine was the birthplace of Russia.Check out your history guys!!

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

I don't hold that against it.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

Russian is the language of the Gods, you fool...

Your English, is a little homeless girl scrounging for food - next to the mighty Russian language.

If you want to speak to the universe or speak with the Devil - you speak Russian.

@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0

Don't know about that but it is surely the best language in the world to sing about love. French and Italian can hang their heads in shame when compared to Russian in this respect.


Hmm... @BB forgive me but somehow I always imagine the Devil speaking German.

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

I prefer Spanish (not all types equally) and/or Brazilian Portuguese.... Italian is a close third.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

What a complete idiot!
Russian is an unpleasant language for most people.


Really?? French and Italian cr@p on Russian for love songs!

Spanish is OK, I have a problem with all forms of Portuguese, it just doesn't sound right to me....Italian I agree with, but how can you forget French?
Also, the elephant in the room is Polish, much better than guttural Russian.

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

Very tragic....


Overall Polish seems a lot more... sophisticated than russian, but neither is especially suited for singing about romantic love.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

Agreed that Polish is a lot more sophisticated than Russian,but disagree that Polish is not suited to singing about romantic love.And there are plenty of Polish love songs on YouTube to prove my point.

@Miloslaw▲ 0▼ 0

After Moscow capitulates and Zelensky becomes a tsar of the united Russian Empire, he will rename the Red Square to Bandera Square.

I have been thinking about it recently. I don't really see the point of getting emotional about long dead historical figures, and since Ukrainians worshipping the guy these days mostly see him as a symbol of indepedence, or their fight against the Muscovite scum, and his worship doesn't really carry any anti-Polish sentiment, why would I care? If it helps make Ukrainians more nationalistic and willing to fight the srus, and also makes all the ruskies seethe as a bonus, then I'll gladly support the Banderite cult.

@Korvinus▲ 0▼ 0

Interesting.

If it helped Germans make more nationalistic and willing to fight Russia, would you gladly support Hitlerite cult too?

@GefreiterKania▲ 0▼ 0

They don't associate him personally with the Volhynia massacres (since he personally had nothing to do with them).

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

... and Germans don't associate Hitler or Auschwitz with murdering of Poles. Recently they mentioned Jews, homosexuals, Roma, Sinti, invalids and pretty much everyone and their grandmother as Auschwitz victims, but somehow they forgot to mention Poles (the second largest group murdered there - 150,000 victims). Should we, therefore, support Hitlerite cult in Germany?


Only if you mean direct physical participation.

Otherwise he had quite a lot to do with them personally. Bandera led the faction that shaped the ideological doctrine which led to the genocide, headed the movement whose cadres organized it, and remained the symbolic and political authority of the faction. The OUN-B led by Bandera had program before and during WWII which promoted ethnic exclusivity, advocated violent removal of "hostile elements", and all the time used language consistent with ethnic purification. In legal and political theory, that is incitement and structural responsibility.

Otherwise, you might as well say that Hitler had nothing to do with the Holocaust because he didn't personally turn on the gas in the Auschwitz gas chambers.

Don't be a retard, Maf.

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

Or planning since he was in a German prison camp at the time.


What government was Bandera a part of again? What position did he hold?

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

... also, pay attention and notice that this thread is not about Bandera but about Klyachkivsky who was directly responsible for the genocide of Poles in Volhynia. Would you support Klyachkivsky's cult as well?

Retards... retards everywhere... *sighs*


He led OUN-B. He held the position of OUN-B leader and ideological architect.

Read my post #25 again if you still don't understand how this makes him legally responsible for the genocide.

EDIT: Notice also - as I advised Kurvinus too, that the thread is about Klyachkivsky who is worshipped in Ukraine and has monuments and streets named after him. Was Klyachkivsky also an innocent angel because he wasn't a part of a "government"?

Retards... retards everywhere...

@Torq▲ 0▼ 0

Hitler might in fact NOT have known specifically about precise orders regarding the intimate details of the extermination camps, Torq could be right about that.

If the Holocaust or Shoah had an "architect", it might have been Heydrich, to be taken over ultimately by Eichmann, following the former's assassination!

@Lyzko▲ 0▼ 0

He certainly knew what was happening and even the leaders' wives knew. Magda Goebbels' letter (she was a very strange and intriguing person) to her former sister in law, a goodbye letter since the war was almost over then, make it clear that she knew but at first didn't quite believe that he meant it when he talked privately about extermination.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

I see that the Hoholobacilum Fascismus has already embedded itself in your spinal cord. I can place this diagnosis confidently based on the symptoms presented.

You have obviously been exposed to a carrier, and now urgent intervention is necessary.

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For your information:

1) OUN-B, as a party, was actually named after Bandera (that's what the B stands for). The moderate nationalists, who didn't want to crucify babies and stick pitchforks in pregnant women - were called the OUN-M (named after Melnyk).

2) In May 1941, under Bandera's direct leadership, the OUN-B issued a little document titled "Struggle and Activity of the OUN during the War." This memo called for the "liquidation" of "undesirable" Poles, Jews, and Russians during the upcoming German invasion. At this point, Mr. Bandera is still a free man.

3) The Lvov Pogroms also happened BEFORE his arrest. There, he personally directed the mass killing of thousands of Jews over the course of 3-4 days.

4) Now a few words regarding his famous "concentration camp" stint. He sat in the Zellenbau, a special wing for high profile prisoners. He lived in a two-room cell with a bed and a guest room, wore civilian clothes, and ate the same rations as SS officers. He was allowed to receive visitors (including his wife) and mail. By these means he continued to exert control over the OUN-B network in Ukraine. Also, sitting in a concentration camp did not prevent him from making occasional "pitches" to the Germans - which they actually entertained.

5) The Germans let him out in 1944. After the war ended - he still remained there, and until his eventual death in Munich from a Soviet assassin. He was even continued to be managed by the same handlers, except now he was made available for use to the CIA and MI6 as well.

@Bobko▲ 0▼ 0