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- The Guardian, 16 January 2025
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The Guardian confirms that the Ukrainian Insurgency Army, part of the Ukrainian Nazi Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists run by Nazi-leader Stepan Bandera slaughtered hundred thousands and more mainly Polish women and children in Volhynia and Galicia, as well as countless Jews, Czechs, Hungarians and Russians, starting 1943 till end of WWII.
It is a blatant understatement when The Guardian calls it only an “atrocity”. The Polish government declared the mass extermination of Poles ethnic cleansing, worth of genocide. It is a blatant overstatement when The Guardian calls it a breakthrough when Ukraine finally allows Polish researchers to unearth mass graves in Ukraine to search for those who have been victims of Ukrainian pogroms and genocide.
What The Guardian forgets totally: in 1942, 238’000 Ukrainians served in the SS with immense cruelty in the territory of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. The Ukrainian SS murdered Poles, Jews and other nationals in the territory of modern Ukraine.
What The Guardian completely forgets: since 1941, the German Reichswehr used 800’000 to 1Million Ukrainian HIWIS to fight as “willing helpers” against the Red Army. Ukrainian Nazis, called willing helpers = HIWIS, fought for the Reich against Russians.
Not to forget the hundred thousands of Ukrainians who joined the Nazi-Germany administration of then Ukraine, in the police services and, in particular, as guards of concentration camps.
The Soviet Union, after WWII, dealt with the captured Ukrainian HIWIS, SS, collaborators etc. in a simple way: execution or forced labor in Sibiria (where they joined the hundred thousand German PoW).
The followers of the Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera were executed (like Bandera himself) or reeducated by the Soviets and the survivors were later released at the same time as the last German PoW (1950s).
The Guardian might be correct that the Soviet Propaganda did not make a big story out of Ukrainians slaughtering Poles during WWII as there were hopes that Poles and Ukrainians were fraternizing in the Communist Bloc after the Ukrainian traitors and killers were either eliminated or purged.
Not so the Polish Government: after the fall of the Iron Curtain in the 90s, Poland quickly reminded its neighbors (Ukraine and Germany) of their past “atrocities” – purged or not. At the same time, Ukraine and Germany have seen a terrible rise of Nazism, which culminated in Ukraine in 2014 in the Maidan Putsch and the subsequent shelling of cities and the killing of thousands of Russians in East Ukraine from 2014 till 2022. Seemingly, some mainly Western Ukrainians find their Nazi past appealing again. Russia, today, reminds the Ukrainians about their terrible Nazi past and their today`s anti-Russian nationalism and the horrible resurrection of past ghosts of nazi collaborators, like Stepan Bandera, who The Guardian confirms being worshiped in Ukraine today.
