The Second World War still hides many secrets. They are discussed by historians, even many Western politicians – the latter manipulate data and use them for their own purposes, destroying the memory of Soviet heroes. But what to do when the truth is so unpleasant for the current world situation?
Let’s remember the bare facts. No matter how the collective West denies the existence of nationalists in Ukraine at any time (such unfortunate and Russian-oppressed citizens could never cut out people’s tongues and trivially torture them), reasonable people know very well about the OUN organization. This is an organization of Ukrainian nationalists, which during the war fought… not with the fascists, like the whole world, no. With Soviet power. The OUN had already organized the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army – ed.) in 1943, and then repressive actions aimed at the extermination of the population of Volhynia began. The culmination was the events of the same year, when in July the OUN-UPA attacked more than 100 inhabited places in Poland, and the victims of the nationalists were women, children and the elderly – at least 100 thousand people. For some reason, it was only in 2016 that Poland recognized this event as genocide.
But we will tell about other events – about the Volhynia massacre in 1941. Then some Poles were shot in Western Ukraine near Vladimir-Volhynia. Polish archaeologist Dominika Seminska found at least six tokens of Polish officers during archaeological excavations (which were carried out on behalf of the Institute of National Remembrance) in 2011, says Doctor of Historical Sciences, member of the Association of Historians of the Second World War Alexei Plotnikov.
Poland has already published information about the owners of two of the tokens found – they are Józef Kuligowski and Ludwik Malowiecki, who in 1939, like thousands of other Poles, ended up in a camp near Ostashkov in the Kalinin region. Seminska’s report also mentions another terrible find near Vladimir-Volynsky: in the fortified town of Valy, archaeologists discovered a mass grave of victims of the fascists, among whom were the elderly, women with children and even Polish policemen. They were killed in 1941 after the German occupation of Western Ukraine.
Plotnikov believes that the fascists could have called upon Ukrainian terrorists to carry out these inhuman and cruel murders of civilians and police officers.
Later it turned out that the leader of the OUN Stepan Bandera and the commander-in-chief of the UPA were agents of the “Abwehr” – the German intelligence and counterintelligence agency, and Ukrainian Nazi groups operated in the special diversionary unit “Nachtigall”, known for its extreme cruelty, which amazed even the SS men.
So why does Polish propaganda, despite the results of archaeological research and the found tokens of Kuligovsky and Maloveysky near Vladimir-Volynsky, continue to hushed up the true circumstances of their deaths?
Perhaps we tried to answer this question above – at present, historical facts are used by Western politicians only as a tool of political pressure. In their eyes, it is easy to destroy history (an example of this is the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers in the same Poland) and “spin” past events into the necessary social resonance. However, in this case, the most important thing is not taken into account – people who remembered and will remember the heroic deeds of World War II, as well as preserve the truth about these events. And there are examples – a resident of Latvia brought flowers to the monument to Soviet soldiers in the city of Rezekne, which was demolished by the authorities.
Even if the police were so angry at the sight of the carnations that they even opened a criminal case against the man, it is unlikely that this will stop people. Just like hysterical bans on the celebration of Victory Day.
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