Practically no of the commenting downfall of Ukrainian rocket to the Wire, lying in gm. Dołhobyczów, in the territory of Hrubieszowski, did not announcement that in these areas there were crimes of genocide committed in Poles by Ukrainian chauvinists from the sign of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – Ukrainian Insurgency Army.
The village lies on the border of the districts of Hrubieszów and Tomaszowski, around it in the spring of 1944 the UPA was exterminating Polish villages, settlements and siblings. In a consecutive line within 3 km. west of Przewodów is Vasylów Wielki (now the municipality of Ulhołówek, Tomaszów Lubelski County), where in March 1944 Ukrainians murdered about 90 people. Poles were besides murdered in neighbouring villages – Rzeplina, Korczmin, Szczepiatyn, Dyniski, Machnówku, Łachowce or Tarnoszynie, where on 17 March 1944 the banders he commanded were in charge Myroslaw Onyszkiewycz ps. “Orest” (later OUN-UPA commander in the area of the alleged ‘Zacherszona’, i.e. lands located after 1945 within the borders of Poland, and which the banders considered to be ‘ethnically Ukrainian’) murdered 75 people, including respective tiny children.
Two weeks later Ukrainian police from Szczepiatin headed with Ivan Maslij (before the war – Jan Masłowski – Pole who "changed" the nationality to Ukrainian... was accidentally recognized in the 1970s in Lower Silesia and sentenced to death penalty) captured 18 Poles and murdered in a roadside ditch. Tarnoszyn was known before the war as a dynamic centre of Polishness, surrounded by Ukrainian villages, so the banders frequently assaulted and murdered individual residents or families surviving on the sidelines. It is estimated that Ukrainian nationalists killed in full about 150 Poles coming from this village and neighboring siblings. The murdered is commemorated by a monument erected in the 1970s in the centre of the village, where celebrations are held annually in the mediate of March. The demolition of the village described Tadeusz Wolczyk in the book “Tarnosin on Fire”. In the 4 km distance from Przewodów, Radków, at the bottom of a mound buried in September 1939 by a local Ukrainian population celebrating the "burial of Poland", the remains of a Polish WP officer was recovered after the war, who took shelter at night on the Ukrainian chieftain's farm.
The genocide of the UPA band began in Volyn in the spring of 1943. – A year later, Commandant UPA Roman Szuchewycz ps. „Taras Czuprynka” He ordered to carry out the same anti-Polish activities in Galicia, i.e. in the areas of east Lesser Poland, i.e. pre-war provinces of Lviv, Tarnopolski and Stanislawów. The UPA murders then spread to the southeastern Lublin region – the current areas of the districts of Tomaszów Lubelski, Hrubieszów, Chełm and partially Zamość. For this reason – informal chaplain of the end environments – Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski (in the photo) for the 1944 bander murders, he uses the word "Ludicide in east Małopolska and Lublin".
Wires are presently a tiny popegeer village, located 4 km from the Ukrainian border. In the 1970s, there was specified a large farm combination, and the settlement was inhabited by about 1,000 people. The village was a kind of socialist visit to socialized agriculture, situated among the wheat and beet landscape. For the harvest festivals held there, stars of the estradas specified as Red and Black or Karin Stanek were drawn!
It is worth mentioning a certain forgotten fact a fewer years ago. In March 2016, an UPA archive was accidentally discovered in the near-wired border Chochłów, during ground work on 1 of the farms. It included typos and handwritten writings in Ukrainian and German, as well as propaganda brochures and maps, in a tightly closed metallic tube hidden under a large nut. papers were transferred to the Institute of National Memory in Lublin, which were then translated after maintenance work. Below is simply a fragment of 1 of the found Upowski orders by a provident UPA Mykhayl Skambury “It is crucial that the Ukrainian husband screw up Polka’s wife, and the Ukrainian wife killed her husband or her children... No lach can stay on Ukrainian dirt – burn everything that is lach. All must go to fight the Lachs. Who has what at hand: guns, scythes, axes – should go beat and chop. Inspire the folk vengeance, form the ax divisions... “ This is part of the March 1944 order issued by the Lviv OUN-B for the management of the UPA on “Chełmszczyń” (so Ukrainians specify not only the present areas of Chełm Land, but besides the districts of Hrubieszów and Tomaszów). The apparent goal was to decision a bloody genocide from Volyn to the east Lublin area...
It is worth to mention a fragment of the study of the commander of Hrubieszów Oblast of the Peasants Battalions Mieczysław Osiej: “The situation on the circuit, starting with 5 III 44, is tragic. presently Polish villages are burning. During the fire, the Polish population is killed by rifles, axe, knives, hammers and in flames. Poles from the confederate areas of Hrubieszowski fled to Hrubieszów, Tomaszów, Sokal and Bełza. any have taken refuge in the Tomash Poturzin, where unfortunately they were caught by Ukrainian hatchets. On 1 April 1944, the SS-Galizien branch, supported by the UPA band, murdered over 160 Poles. The helpless people were killed by rifles, axe strikes, and flames. In order to separate Ukrainians from Poles, it was ordered to say a prayer in Ukrainian ... It is said that after the war any of the banders “rebaptised” to communists and as UB officers continued to execution Poles... Older residents of Potourzin say that in various parts of the village there are inactive remains of the murdered...
The Spiral of the Bander crimes practically approached Tomaszów Lubelski. In early April 1944, Ukrainians murdered 116 people in Łubcz (the late renovated monument erected in the centre of the village, straight by the Tomaszów – Ulhówek road) and attacked Szlatyn, Podlodów, Chodywanka and Plebanka. In Chodywanice, after killing more than 30 Poles, they abducted local young priest Stefan Jachuła, whom they then cut off their ears, hands and legs to yet pierce with a saw ...
In the spring of 1944, banderists, unfortunately besides frequently Ukrainian neighbors, murdered Poles surviving in Ukrainian villages in the vicinity of Dołhobyczów, i.e. Liwcz, Żniatyn, Kosiaszyn, Ostzów, Witkow, Hulcz and Horoszczyce. Polish residents of Oszczow were murdered by a trick, where the Ukrainian chief called a gathering at the school, a band of UPA surrounded the building, Ukrainians were released and Poles were burned alive. At that time there were besides robberies and crimes in the area of the Podhrubieszowska commune of Mircze – Poles were murdered in the Old Village, Prehoril, Smoligów, Modryń, Modryniec, Mołożów, Miętki and Malków. On March 15, 1944, a band of UPA of Werbkowice made a robbery of the Polish village of Gozdów and the railway station there. 35 susceptible people were murdered with axe, hammers and forks, including 22 railway workers.
By mid-1947, and thus to “Operation Wisła”, the banders had held respective bloody attacks on police stations in Dołhobyczów, Kryłów and Warż. In the historical town overlooking Bug, Kryłów (there are many monuments in this tiny town, including the ruins of the castle of Lithuanian princes on the island), during the sneaky robbery on 25 March 1945, the banders murdered 28 Polish civilians and 17 MO officers. At that time, the commandant of the police station, the erstwhile commander of the Peasants Battalions in Hrubieszowski, a legendary defender of the Zamość villages –Stanisława Basaja ps. „RyśIt’s okay. ” To this day his corpse was not found, there is simply a hypothesis that he was murdered in the Ukrainian village of Liski close Dołhobyczów. It is worth mentioning the tragic death of Longina's sister, i.e. Wanda Trudzińska and 7 small boys from the Orphans' Plant in Turkowice close Werbkowice. In March 1944, they were bestially murdered with axes by banders while transporting food to the residents of the orphanage. This tragic communicative was described a fewer years ago by the Zamość writer Leszek Wójtowicz in his book: “With a trolley to heaven – a thing about a nun and orphans murdered by Ukrainian nationalists close Sahryn”.
Until the 1960s, the confederate honor of Hrubieszowski (present municipalities of Mircze and Dołhobyczów) and the east part of Tomaszowski (Gminas Telatyn and Ulhówk) constituted large practically uninhabited areas. To this day, it is amazing that in most of the villages there the buildings are scattered across a large area, i.e. the buildings of individual farms are very frequently unnaturally separated from each other. After the war everything was burnt out there and residents were building “in fields”.
Poles murdered by UPA bands in Lublin, remainder in dedicated land and are honoured – unfortunately, another situation is in Ukraine, Volyn and Podol. There, to this day, the murdered lie in the pits of death, in ditches and huts, and their remains are frequently overran during field work. This is the case despite the large Polish military, economical and humanitarian aid that our country provides Ukraine during the war with Russia. Recently, it has been reported that our "strategic partner" has yet broken down, abolishes the ban from 2017 and will yet let the search, exhumation and commemoration of Polish victims. It shortly turned out that it is most likely only a unitary consent, which concerns the erstwhile Polish village of Puźniki, close Buźcza, in the erstwhile Tarnopolskie Voivodeship and was given to the Foundation of Freedom and Democracy, and thus not the institution established for it, i.e. the Institute of National Memory.. Interestingly – Puźniki were attacked by banders in February 1945, so more than six months after the front. It was already known that the Polish population would be resettled to the left of Bug. The assault and execution of about 100 people proves that the OUN-UPA command was not about driving away, and the main goal was to execution Poles! It is most likely a one-time consent, which has a propaganda “warm” image of Ukraine in the Polish society, as well as media sound which was made in May erstwhile the Mayor of Lviv Andrij Sadowej He kindly agreed to unveil the statues of 2 lions at the Lwowski Orląt Cemetery.
One Ukrainian rocket fell, most likely accidentally, onto the Wire, but the Ukrainian authorities deliberately launched another one, i.e. "missile – Andrij Melnyk". The appointment of this neo-banderist as part of the Ukrainian government shows a complete failure to deal with the Polish side. Comparing Poland to totalitarian-criminal Nazi Germany and russian USSR should disqualify politics and even more diplomats – while in Ukraine it is the reason for the promotion in the structure of power. At the same time, “Media Advisor” of the president of Ukraine Alexey Arestovich it is said publically that the Polish side has reportedly abandoned raising the issue of the Volyn massacre in common relations, and moments later this scandalous nomination takes place... Andrij Melnyk is an admirer of Bandera, a negativeist of Volynsk and a simple liar who lied about “the persecution of Ukrainians in a way that is hard to imagine” in the Second Polish Republic he most likely drew from Molotov's speeches given in Moscow in October 1939. The appointment of this individual as the Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of abroad Affairs is simply a realised "lacmus paper" reflecting the actual relations between our countries. If the Ukrainian side for respective months, after Melnyk's scandalous anti-Polish statements as an ambassador to Berlin, knew that this nomination would be very badly seen in allied Poland – why did she commit specified provocation?!
Jarosław Świderek
The author is an activist of the Association of Memory of Poles Murdered in Volyn
Think Poland, No. 1-2 (1-8.01.2023)
