On this day in 1943 Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacred 173 Poles in Parośla village. It is considered a beginning of ethnic cleansing campaign in which even 100 000 Poles have been killed by UPA in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parośla_I_massacre

    > According to statements of Polish survivors, a UPA unit entered the village pretending to be Soviet partisans. The men split up, entered the houses, and demanded food from the residents. Meanwhile, the village was surrounded, and all Poles passing through were also detained.[5] Several UPA members stationed themselves in each household. After dinner, the UPA partisans ordered all the inhabitants to lay down and tied them up, under the pretext that they were about to carry out an assault on a nearby German rail transport and if the village inhabitants were found to be tied up, that would serve as proof for Germans, that Poles did not cooperate with the UPA in the attack. Not all the inhabitants of Parośla believed them, since some of them could speak Ukrainian, but being unarmed, they had no choice but to do as they were told.[5]

    > All of the Poles were murdered with knives and axes: old men, women, children (including a six-month-old baby stuck to a table). In the Kolodyński family home, the unit’s commander first interrogated the six prisoners (the Cossacks taken at Włodzimierzec) before killing them with axes. Only 12 Poles survived, including a twelve-year-old boy named Witold Kołodyński, who suffered a cracked skull from an axe blow. The houses were looted and property was taken away on sleighs.[5] Fifteen more Poles were killed by the same UPA unit shortly afterward on the road to the khutor of Tuptyn. The next day, Poles from neighboring villages discovered the bodies. Those wounded were taken to a hospital in Włodzimierzec. German soldiers came to the village, and the corpses were buried under their supervision. One of the perpetrators, P. Wasylenko, was caught by Soviets after the war and described the crime: “All Poles were cut into pieces, babies as well”.[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia

  3. Wow. Russia’s propaganda wing is out in full force!

    I wonder what the recent edit-history of that wiki page is?

  5. When I see stuff like that I perceive it as a part of Russian propaganda. It’s not a time to speak about ww2 right now. Many history pages need to be learned, but we can do it later and find a consensus with our Poland brothers.

    It’s only Russia who think every day about ww2 and just love to speak about how bad the other guys were, but Russia always good.

  8. Good to see the pro-Ukrainian accounts out in force down voting this post. Can you name a better dynamic duo than nationalists trying to white wash history?

  10. And the Ukrainian government and a lot of Ukrainians love and admire the UPA. There’s memorials to them all over the place in the areas they operated in and beyond.

  12. Ukrainians still exonerate these murderers and treat their minorities poorly with archaic language laws. Ukraine is awful too, regardless of whether or not it’s a victim of Russia.

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