#wolyn

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[mynawyspie]

'The victims do not call for revenge but for remembrance'

Between 1943 and 1945, members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacred thousands of Poles throughout Volhynia, a region that was in Nazi-occupied Poland and is part of present-day Ukraine. In 2016, Poland’s Parliament recognized the killings as genocide, a term that Ukraine rejects.

The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children. UPA's methods were particularly brutal, with many of the victims being tortured and mutilated, and resulted in 40,000–60,000 Polish deaths in Volhynia and 30,000–40,000 in Eastern Galicia, with the other regions for the total about 100,000.

The killings were directly linked with the policies of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose goal was to purge all non-Ukrainians from the future Ukrainian state. Not limiting their activities to the purging of Polish civilians, the UPA also wanted to erase all traces of the Polish presence in the area.

After World War II, the Soviet Union incorporated the region into its territory. Up until its collapse, Communist censorship had suppressed public discourse surrounding the Volhynia massacre. Ukraine was to be seen as a friendly Soviet nation, and any mention of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts or the lost Polish territories was deemed anti-Soviet.

[nasermater]

today is the 77th anniversary of genocide of Polish people in Wołyń, please make sure not to ever forget about what happened at this time in history and remember Polish victims that were slaughtered and burned alive for their nationality alone.

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Wołyń. Rozmowa z twórcami filmu. Interview with the creators of Wołyń (Hatred)

O filmie "Wołyń" rozmawiamy z jego twórcami: reżyserem i autorem scenariusza Wojciechem Smarzowskim, autorem zdjęć Piotrem Sobocińskim jr, aktorką Michaliną ...

The Making Of - Wołyń