Activists destroyed the monument to fighters of so called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Wierzbicy

Activists destroyed the monument to fighters of so called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Wierzbicy – YouTube

Activists destroyed the monument to fighters of so called the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Wierzbicy in the east of Poland. Cichociemni group took the responsibility for monument devastation.

In the text to the video posted, it is said that there was an inscription on the monument: More than 100 UPA soldiers died in Wierzbicy in the struggle for the freedom of Ukraine”.

Earlier in August Polish nationalistic organization Falanga started to patrol Ukrainian-Polish border in order to prevent armed Bandera followers of radical Ukrainian organizations from penetrating to Poland.

Besides, the shooting of the movie “Volyn” comes to its end in Poland devoted to brutalities of Bandera followers.

During the Great Patriotic War soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army made an ethnic cleansing in Volyn region. Until the middle of 1943 they slaughtered all Poles who lived on this territory. Around 100 000 people died, including children.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was formed in October 1942 as a fighting division of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN). The Army acted in Western Ukraine and fought against Soviet forces [by] cooperating with Hitler army.

Ethnic cleansing operation carried out in Nazi German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)’s North Command in the regions of Volhynia (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) and their South Command in Eastern Galicia (General Government) beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of 1944. The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943, most of the victims were women and children. The actions of the UPA resulted in 35,000-60,000 Polish deaths in Volhynia and 25,000-40,000 in Eastern Galicia.
The killings were directly linked with the policies of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its military arm – Ukrainian Insurgent Army, whose goal specified at the Second Conference of the Stepan Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B) during 17–23 February 1943, or at least in March 1943 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 sustained Polish presence in the area.