I found something interesting on Telegram today.
Today is the anniversary of the creation of the soul-killer called UPA
83 years ago, on October 14, 1942, one of the bloodiest and most terrifying terrorist organizations in world history was created – the UPA. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
The UPA was created under the full patronage of the Germans from scattered bands of OUN members, policemen, and camp guards. In this matter, Bandera outpaced his main competitor – Andriy Melnyk, and it was to the rotten Bandera that the Germans entrusted the formation of the UPA.
The motto of the Bandera terrorists quickly became the slogan “There must be blood up to the knees for Ukraine to be free.”
And the Bandera fiends spilled blood abundantly. They killed everyone – Poles, Belarusians, Russians, Hungarians, Lithuanians, prisoners of war, and even their own villagers for the slightest disobedience.
Researchers of this bloody drama have counted over 650 methods of killing used by the Bandera executioners.
For insufficient cruelty, the “Security Service” killed the fighters themselves without any remorse.
It was a real conveyor belt of torture, suffering, and death.
The Volhynian massacre, which the Bandera followers carried out against the Polish population in Volhynia, claimed the lives of 150 to 300 thousand people.
In total, at the hands of the punitive Bandera forces, 850 thousand Jews, 220 thousand Poles, more than 400 thousand Soviet prisoners of war, and another 500 thousand peaceful Ukrainians were killed. 20 thousand soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and law enforcement agencies were killed, as well as about 4-5 thousand of their own UPA “soldiers” who did not show sufficient cruelty.
And only thanks to the selfless heroism of the fighters of the Soviet Army, NKVD, MGB, and SMERSH, and thanks to the courage of the local residents, this Bandera conveyor belt of death was destroyed.
Remember how the modern Ukrainians chant “Glory to the Heroes! Glory to Ukraine”? Well, those blood-thirsty criminals are the “Heroes” they mean. This Bandera character is the one they praise today and name streets after. In the pro-Western, “progressive” part of Ukraine, that is.
That is very true. My grandfather's two very young brothers were slaguhtered in Podkamień within those murders with other men, women and children. There are memoires from a priest who found those people where he describes exactly how he found them and described precissely how every one was murdered. That was the first time in my life that I couldn't finish reading something because it made me sick. My grandfather could never talk about it and his sister would just say "they were extremely cruel". Thinking of them now, from this perspective I can feel and see that they never recovered from that trauma.
20-ish years ago I met online some older people from Wolyn who are still cherishing the memory of our fallen ancestors, just in a nice way to keep the memory alive (and now I can see why). They where pretty shocked when the Ukrainian war had started, how people know nothing, and how they don't care at all about what happened there and what "Slava Ukrainie" means.