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Ukrainian history is a litany of heroes and heroines who lived (and sometimes died) in a determined struggle for an inde...
09/06/2021

Ukrainian history is a litany of heroes and heroines who lived (and sometimes died) in a determined struggle for an independent Ukraine. One of those heroic figures was Oleh Olzhych, who also went by several pseudonyms or noms de guerre. An archaeologist, poet and nationalist leader, Olzhych was a renowned and well-respected intellectual who accepted an invitation as a guest lecturer at Harvard University during the 1930s. As a member of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), he was actively involved in the underground resistance movement.

After the split in the OUN in 1938, Olzhych remained loyal to the Melnyk faction and represented OUN-M in Carpatho-Ukraine as Melnyk's deputy. Olzhych's poetry focused on themes of Ukrainian struggle for independence. He moved to Kyiv in 1941 and was instrumental in the formation of the Ukrainian National Council.

He also headed the cultural and educational branch of OUN, a role that ended when he was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Sachsenhausen. Olzhych was brutally tortured and died on June 9, 1944. His name is enshrined with the legion of other martyrs who gave their lives for their country. It is also enshrined in the minds and the hearts of many Ukrainians who emigrated after World War II.

Photo: Monument to Oleh Olzhych in the United States.

According to the medals issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the seizure of Crimea began on 20 February 2014. Desp...
08/06/2021

According to the medals issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense, the seizure of Crimea began on 20 February 2014. Despite Kremlin attempts to portray the invasion as a response to events in Kyiv, this was actually days before Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia

Kateryna Zarytska [Катерина Зарицька], born 5 November 1914 in Kolomyia, Halychyna, died 29 August 1986 in Lviv.Civic an...
25/05/2021

Kateryna Zarytska [Катерина Зарицька], born 5 November 1914 in Kolomyia, Halychyna, died 29 August 1986 in Lviv.

Civic and nationalist leader; daughter of Myron Zarytsky, wife of Mykhailo Soroka and mother of Bohdan Soroka. She became a member of the OUN underground in 1930. In 1934, while a student of mathematics at the Lviv Polytechnic, she was arrested by the Polish authorities for her involvement in the assassination of Bronisław Pieracki and sentenced at the Warsaw Trial to a four-year prison term. Shortly after her release in 1939, she married Mykhailo Soroka. In 1940 she was again arrested, that time by the Soviet authorities, and imprisoned for her membership in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Having been released after the German occupation of Western Ukraine, she became the regional co-ordinator of the OUN women’s section and head of the Ukrainian Red Cross from 1943-47. She was arrested by the MGB in 1947 and sentenced to a 25-year term, which she served in Russian prisons (to 1968) in Verkhnouralsk and Vladimir and in concentration camps in Mordovia. After her release in 1972 she lived in Ternopil oblast.

Happy Easter to all those celebrating today!
01/05/2021

Happy Easter to all those celebrating today!

Historical photograph, February 1918.Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks in Brest-Litovsk. From left to right:Mykola...
28/04/2021

Historical photograph, February 1918.

Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks in Brest-Litovsk.

From left to right:
Mykola Liubynsky
Vsevolod Holubovych (the head of the delegation)
Mykola Levytsky
Unknown Petty Officer with a colonel patch
Unknown captain pilot
Olexander Sevryuk

N**i war crimes in Ukraine.The International Military Tribunal that tried 22 N**i defendants in Nuremberg in 1945–6 defi...
08/04/2021

N**i war crimes in Ukraine.

The International Military Tribunal that tried 22 N**i defendants in Nuremberg in 1945–6 defined war crimes in traditional fashion as ‘violations of the laws or customs of war,’ including murder, the ill-treatment or deportation of civilians to slave labor, the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, the killing of hostages, and the plunder or destruction of property. It also introduced the unprecedented charge of ‘crimes against humanity,’ encompassing ‘inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war; or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds.’

On all those counts N**i war crimes took a staggering toll during the occupation of Ukraine in 1941–4. Adolf Hi**er, who regarded Jews and Slavs as subhuman, considered Ukraine and its people as resources to be exploited ruthlessly in the interests of German eastward expansion and world domination. His views were enthusiastically supported by top N**i officials, notably Erich Koch, head of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine. Those officials overrode the objections of others, such as Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, who favored the establishment of German dominance by means of concessions to the non-Russian Slavs. N**i racial theory, the ideological basis for the criminal mistreatment of the Eastern European peoples, was openly expressed in such publications as the SS pamphlet Der Untermensch (1942).

Following the invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the Germans took approximately 5.8 million prisoners of war, whom they held in open-air camps. Some 3.3 million perished as a result of deliberate starvation, neglect, physical abuse, and lack of international protection. More than 1.3 million prisoners of war died in approximately 160 concentration camps throughout Ukraine. Some escaped death by recruitment as concentration camp guards and, after the defeat at Stalingrad, in military and other formations.

In occupying Ukraine the Germans were particularly concerned to exploit the country's agriculture and raw materials for the war effort, to recruit slave labor, and to crush popular support for Soviet or Ukrainian nationalist partisans (see Soviet partisans in Ukraine, 1941–5, and Ukrainian Insurgent Army). Numerous war crimes were committed in the effort to achieve those goals. By the autumn of 1941, serious food shortages were being reported in Kyiv and Lviv, but nothing was done to alleviate them: the provision of food to the army and the German population was seen as the overriding priority. General Walther von Reichenau wrote in November 1941 that feeding locals and prisoners of war was an ‘unnecessary humanitarian gesture,’ and a report of the German Economic Armament Staff dated 2 December 1941 advocated the ‘elimination of superfluous eaters (Jews and inhabitants of large Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, which get no food rations at all).’ Urban dwellers were forbidden to change their places of residence or buy food in villages on pain of arrest and fine. Kyiv lost about 60 percent of its population, and Kharkiv lost about 80,000 persons to starvation. High-calorie foods were reserved for Germans. Ultimately more than 80 percent of the food that Germany took from the eastern territories came from Ukraine.

The Soviet system of collective farms was left virtually unchanged under N**i rule, with work norms and delivery quotas rigorously enforced. Draconian penalties, including ex*****on, were inflicted on those who failed to deliver food to the occupation authorities. Village officials were held responsible for prompt fulfillment. According to a decree issued in Lubny on 8 April 1943, the penalty for delivering watered milk was confiscation of all the offending peasant's property. When Adolf Hi**er demanded 3 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain in 1943, Erich Koch ordered that the task be carried out ‘without regard for losses,’ since the feeding of the Ukrainian civilian population was ‘of absolutely no concern.’

In late 1941, when it became clear that the conflict would be protracted, the Germans began to recruit workers (initially volunteers) from the local population for work in Germany. According to Alfred Rosenberg's decree of 17 July 1941 all inhabitants of the eastern territories aged 18 to 45 were obliged to work according to their abilities. By 20 October 1941 the Chernihiv city government was forcing men aged 16 to 60 and women aged 16 to 50 to register with the labor board on pain of being dealt with as saboteurs. By early 1942, concentration camps had been established for those avoiding labor, and the death penalty had been proclaimed for those refusing to work. As the war intensified, local officials were told to deliver specified numbers of workers, and the army was ordered to assist in roundups. In order to meet quotas policemen took to rounding up people at random on the streets as well as in workplaces and institutions. The standard punishment for those refusing to work was arrest and confiscation of property; by 1943, men and women aged 16 to 55 were being ordered to report to labor boards on pain of ex*****on. Those transported to Germany were herded onto cattle cars with insufficient food and drink. Once there, they were underfed and exploited so mercilessly that, as a Krupp official noted in 1942, they lacked the strength to do their jobs. Of the total 2.8 million Ostarbeiter from the eastern territories, more than 2 million came from Ukraine.

For those who assisted partisans (officially called ‘bands’ after August 1942 and so deprived of combatant status) the death penalty was proclaimed on 14 August 1941. In a circular of 16 September 1941 the commander in chief of the armed forces, Gen Wilhelm Keitel, ordered the ‘immediate use of the most severe measures’ to establish the authority of the occupation forces and prevent the spread of resistance. It became common practice for the Germans to take scores of civilian hostages, changed at intervals, in order to ensure the safety of their troops and prevent sabotage. Civilians were also shot in reprisal. In Dnipropetrovsk in December 1941, for example, 100 were killed for the attempted assassination of a German officer, and in the same month the Zhytomyr Generalkommissar ordered the shooting of 100 men and women for every killing of a Volksdeutsche. During the winter of 1941–2 in Kharkiv, 40 to 70 citizens were hanged every few days because of sightings of Soviet partisans; the corpses hung from balconies for days at a time. When dealing with villages suspected of harboring or assisting partisans, whether voluntarily or not, the Germans showed no mercy. Eyewitness testimony on the fate of Ukrainian villages during the occupation relates hundreds of instances of depredations carried out by punishment details. Typically the Germans would surround a village, shoot the inhabitants indiscriminately, drive some of them into buildings to be burned alive, subject others to public torture, and then loot and burn the village.

As part of their systematic effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe (see Holocaust) the N**is rounded up and killed Jews living in Ukraine. Since no extermination camps were built on Ukrainian territory (although 50 ghettos were established), the killings typically took place in the open. Among the sites in Ukraine where Jews were killed the most infamous was Babyn Yar in Kyiv. The city's Jewish population of almost 70,000 was machine-gunned there in the autumn of 1941, and the ravine was then used as a mass grave for two more years. In Lviv about 200,000 Jews perished in the Yaniv concentration camp during the occupation. The Germans' Romanian allies, who occupied Transnistria, also committed war crimes: some 200,000 residents of Odesa and the surrounding region were murdered in December 1941.

In addition to human losses there was great destruction of Ukraine's cultural monuments and institutions during the German occupation. The losses suffered by the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR alone are estimated at 126 million rubles. The Germans destroyed 116 institutions of higher learning along with 8,104 schools (another 10,052 schools were partially destroyed). Many architectural monuments were leveled, as were 151 museums—museum exhibits commonly being either plundered or damaged beyond repair. More than 50 million books were burned or stolen; 634 print shops (77 percent of the Ukrainian SSR total) were ruined; and more than 200 theaters were destroyed. During their retreat from Ukraine the Germans followed a ‘scorched earth’ policy and destroyed everything useful to their enemies.

According to recent Soviet figures a total of more than 5,265,000 civilians and prisoners of war were killed during the occupation of Ukraine. The figure presumably includes the 900,000 Ukrainian Jews whom Western scholars estimate to have been murdered. The Germans destroyed 714 towns and urban areas and 28,000 villages and farmsteads, and left approximately 10,000,000 people homeless. Total material losses have been estimated at a value of some 1.2 trillion prewar rubles.

A Ukrainian 100 Karbovanets note issued in 1917 by the Ukrainian National Republic. It was printed with Ukrainian, Russi...
08/04/2021

A Ukrainian 100 Karbovanets note issued in 1917 by the Ukrainian National Republic. It was printed with Ukrainian, Russian, Polish and Yiddish inscriptions.

Was this the only instance of a banknote in the world at the time that was printed with Yiddish on it? We believe so.

Historical photograph.The personnel of the Flying Regiment of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) next to the "LVG" C.V ai...
04/04/2021

Historical photograph.

The personnel of the Flying Regiment of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) next to the "LVG" C.V aircraft (in the foreground) and "DFW" C.V (in the background), Shatava, July 25, 1919.

Kapusniak is one of the oldest and most significant dishes in Ukraine. It used to be prepared for weddings, funerals, an...
02/04/2021

Kapusniak is one of the oldest and most significant dishes in Ukraine. It used to be prepared for weddings, funerals, and Christmas dinners. Nowadays, Ukrainians enjoy this soup throughout the year.

The key ingredient of kapusniak is sauerkraut, which is thoroughly washed before cooking to give the soup its transparent color. It is cooked in meat or mushroom broth with potatoes, onions, carrots, and bay leaves. Traditionally kapusniak is served with sour cream and chopped parsley.

The 20th century was the bloodiest time in human history as a result of a disastrous combination of factors. Chief among...
30/03/2021

The 20th century was the bloodiest time in human history as a result of a disastrous combination of factors. Chief among these was the horrific intersection between the mass spread of dangerous ideologies and the advancement of technologies that could harm human bodies. In the example of the Soviet Union, a project to radically transform human society resulted in millions of deaths. The 1917 Revolution attempted to institute communism by a complete re-imagining of a person's role in their community, enacted through brute force, a novel governmental structure, and continuous re-education of large portions of the population.

A new world needed new leaders. Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) was one of the very instrumental figures of this effort. He was regarded by the Bolsheviks as a genuine hero of the Revolution who did much to make Soviet communism possible. He was a true Bolshevik, arrested numerous times for his pre-Revolutionary activities with Polish and Lithuanian Social Democrats between 1895 and 1912. The arrests were usually followed by exiles to Siberia, from which he would subsequently escape. He did get locked up for a while between 1912 and 1917, until the February Revolution freed him.

Dzerzhinsky had a key role in the October Revolution of 1917 that swept the Bolsheviks to power in Russia. A strong supporter of Vladimir Lenin, he was named in December 1917 as the head of the newly-created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counterrevolution and Sabotage (Cheka). This secret police had full support from Lenin in exercising all means necessary to w**d out those who were perceived to be the enemies of the state. Spurred on by a failed assassination attempt on Lenin in August 1918, the fight against counter-revolutionaries became known as "the Red Terror" – a period of mass ex*****ons from September to October 1918, carried out by the Cheka with help from the Red Army.

The Cheka's methods were very efficient. From arrest to ex*****on would take a day. The killings happened in basements of prisons and public places. No other governmental body supervised them. While records are hard to confirm, it is believed at least 10,000 to 15,000 people were often arbitrarily killed by the Cheka during this period. The real number could be close to a million as some historians argue. The murdered were class enemies, landlords, scientists, priests or often just those who were just caught in the net. Dzerzhinsky was accepting of collateral damage, saying "The Cheka should defend the revolution and defeat the enemy, even if its sword accidentally falls on the heads of innocents."

"We stand for organised terror - this should be frankly admitted," said Dzerzhinsky in a chilling quote in 1918. "Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession."

The Jewish Battalion of the Ukrainian Galician Army.The battalion was formed from Jewish militia units in the city of Te...
27/03/2021

The Jewish Battalion of the Ukrainian Galician Army.

The battalion was formed from Jewish militia units in the city of Ternopil during June 1919 as part of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA). It was commanded by Lieutenant Solomon Leimberg and initially was under direct operational control of the First Corps Headquarters. The battalion reached a total strength of 1,200 soldiers, who were organised into four infantry companies, one machine-gun company, one engineer company, and other units. After basic training in Ostapie, Skalat county, the battalion was sent to the Polish front and was in combat from 14 July 1919. During the withdrawal of the UHA to the east, the battalion initially had responsibility for rear guard security and later participated in combat against the Red Army forces in Proskuriv and captured the town of Mykhalpil (Mykhailivka).

In Vinnytsia the battalion's mission was to secure the city and the headquarters of the First Corps. In the march on Kyiv in late August 1919 the battalion was attached to the 6th Brigade with the mission of gaining and securing the rail station at Sviatoshyne. In September 1919 the battalion was temporarily stationed in Berdychiv, where its actions in securing the town gained wide support among the local people. After transfer to Vinnytsia in late autumn 1919, the battalion was so decimated by the typhus epidemic that it was disbanded and its surviving soldiers were reassigned to other UHA units.

Historical photo, November 1917.In the center from left: Symon Petliura, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Mykhailo Hrushevsky (...
24/03/2021

Historical photo, November 1917.

In the center from left: Symon Petliura, Volodymyr Vynnychenko and Mykhailo Hrushevsky (white beard) during the 3rd Ukrainian military congress, at Kyiv's Sofiivska Square.

Historical photo.Sprynya village, Lviv region, July 1944.Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Battalion "Levy" (Lions) on guar...
23/03/2021

Historical photo.

Sprynya village, Lviv region, July 1944.

Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) Battalion "Levy" (Lions) on guard at the First Great Meeting of Ukraine Supreme Liberation Council (UHVR). A few weeks before, the unit defeated a German N**i detachment. German weapons, uniforms and dogs were on display as "war trophies" of the victory.

Historical document: OUN DecalogThe ten commandments of a Ukrainian nationalist.It was written by a leading member, Step...
22/03/2021

Historical document: OUN Decalog

The ten commandments of a Ukrainian nationalist.

It was written by a leading member, Stepan Lenkavsky (1904-77), and first published as an insert in the underground newspaper Surma in the summer of 1929.

Memorandum of a Conversation Held on the Night of August 23rd to 24th 1939, Between the Reich Foreign Minister, on the O...
20/03/2021

Memorandum of a Conversation Held on the Night of August 23rd to 24th 1939, Between the Reich Foreign Minister, on the One Hand, and Herr Stalin and the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Molotov, on the Other Hand

ARTICLE QUOTE

Point #7: (Attitude of the German people to the German-Russian Non-aggression Pact)

The REICH FOREIGN MINISTER stated that he had been able to determine that all strata of the German people, and especially the simple people, most warmly welcomed the understanding with the Soviet Union. The people felt instinctively that between Germany and the Soviet Union no natural conflicts of interests existed, and that the development of good relations had hitherto been disturbed only by foreign intrigue, in particular on the part of England.

HERR STALIN replied that he readily believed this. The Germans desired peace and therefore welcomed friendly relations between the Reich and the Soviet Union.

The REICH FOREIGN MINISTER interrupted here to say that it was certainly true that the German people desired peace, but, on the other hand, indignation against Poland was so great that every single man was ready to fight. The German people would no longer put up with Polish provocation.

Point #8 (Toasts)

In the course of the conversation, HERR STALIN spontaneously proposed a toast to the Fuhrer, as follows:

"I know how much the German nation loves its Fuhrer; I should therefore like to drink to his health."

HERR MOLOTOV drank to the health of the Reich Foreign Minister and of the Ambassador, Count von der Schulenburg.

HERR MOLOTOV raised his glass to Stalin, remarking that it had been Stalin who-through his speech of March of this year, which had been well understood in Germany-had brought about the reversal in political relations.

HERREN MOLOTOV and STALIN drank repeatedly to the Non-aggression Pact, the new era of German-Russian relations, and to the German nation.

The REICH FOREIGN MINISTER in turn proposed a toast to Herr Stalin, toasts to the Soviet Government, and to a favourable development of relations between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Point #9

When they took their leave, HERR STALIN addressed to the Reich Foreign Minister words to this effect:

The Soviet Government takes the new Pact very seriously. He could guarantee on his word of honour that the Soviet Union would not betray its partner.

END QUOTE

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/ns053.asp

Lina Kostenko (1930-) is one of Ukraine’s most important contemporary poets and authors. Between 1957 and 1961, she publ...
19/03/2021

Lina Kostenko (1930-) is one of Ukraine’s most important contemporary poets and authors. Between 1957 and 1961, she published three volumes of poetry that won her considerable popularity. Her refusal to give into ideological criticism and the demands of Soviet censorship led to her work being blocked from publication until 1977. During this time she was an active and outspoken member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. She continued publishing into the post-Soviet period, and in 2010, she published her first novel, Notes of a Ukrainian Madman, an account of the social and political upheaval in independent Ukraine, which immediately became a bestseller. Kostenko was born not far from the Chernobyl Zone, and in the 1990s she worked in the affected area on the preservation of cultural heritage. The disaster is a major preoccupation of her work.

Today is her 91st Birthday.

Polish historians have sought to find Ukrainian nationalist documents planning or calling for genocide against Poles in ...
18/03/2021

Polish historians have sought to find Ukrainian nationalist documents planning or calling for genocide against Poles in Volhynia, but they have failed. Indeed, there is no Polish equivalent of the two-volume, 1,400-page collection of 478 documents on Ukrainian-Polish relations edited by Viatrovych. Ukrainian historians believe the reason is because documents and archives would undercut Poland’s genocide myth. In other words, no known OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) instructions exist that ordered UPA units to kill Poles in Volhynia.

The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, stated that Adolf Hi**er and Joseph Stalin met in Lviv before the outbr...
16/03/2021

The first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, stated that Adolf Hi**er and Joseph Stalin met in Lviv before the outbreak of World War II.

“Hi**er and Stalin met in Lviv. There is a document, this is not a secret. They tried to come to an agreement ... Instead of stopping Hi**er, they untied his hands", he said while on the air of the 60 minutes program on the TV channel "Russia 1”.

According to Kravchuk, Hi**er subsequently “turned everything against the Soviet Union”, as a result of which the peoples of the USSR suffered.

With this statement, the former president of Ukraine gave some credibility to the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who laid the blame on the Soviet Union for unleashing the Second World War.

Kirill in front of the statue of Volodymyr the Great in Moscow. The Kremlinites absorb other countries' histories and tr...
15/03/2021

Kirill in front of the statue of Volodymyr the Great in Moscow. The Kremlinites absorb other countries' histories and try to make it their own. Volodymyr ruled Kyiv from 988 to 1051 - Moscow was virginal swampland at the time.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) used bunkers (Kryivky) to hide from German and Soviet forces during WW2. After the wa...
13/03/2021

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) used bunkers (Kryivky) to hide from German and Soviet forces during WW2. After the war and with the reacquisition of Ukrainian lands, the Soviets quickly began to learn how to uncover the hiding places of the Ukrainian insurgents. Dogs were often used to find the hidden bunkers, along with heat detection probes/devices to pick up underground warmth.

For many insurgents the kryivka became their final resting place. Having discovered a bunker, NKVD agents immediately surrounded it. Initially, they proposed that the underground members surrender. If they refused, the battle began. The kryivka was fired upon and grenades were thrown into it. Sometimes in order to capture its inhabitants alive, a special gas was used such as "Typhoon" and "Neptune-47" specially created by the NKVD for this purpose. In the majority of cases, the standoff ended with a final bullet which the insurgents left for themselves. There were rare occasions when insurgents managed to escape from enemy capture. So despite the losses, kryivkas undoubtedly allowed many underground members to survive and contributed to the long-lasting struggle against Stalinist forces.

Photo: a group of NKVD agents/assassins whose sole purpose was to hunt the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It was a popular role, as one day of Soviet service hunting "Banderites" counted as three.

The Soviet Union’s war with N**i Germany began with Hi**er’s attack on the USSR in June 1941. World War II, however, beg...
12/03/2021

The Soviet Union’s war with N**i Germany began with Hi**er’s attack on the USSR in June 1941. World War II, however, began almost two years earlier, and did so with Stalin and Hi**er aligned, an alliance made by Stalin and Hi**er through their respective foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop in August 1939. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact contained a secret protocol that divided Eastern Europe, including Poland, into Soviet- and N**i-controlled zones. On that basis, Hi**er invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17; both countries held a joint victory parade in the occupied Polish city of Brest on September 22. The next year, also on the basis of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

During the Second World War’s final phases, Soviet armies pushed westward, freeing Eastern and Central Europe from N**ism, while imposing through brutal violence their own totalitarian rule, which remained in place until 1989.

The Soviets and Russia under Putin want the world to remember the good part of the Soviet record, but not the whole of that record. When the Soviets controlled Europe’s eastern third, they could control the historical narrative (though the actual history was still taught through families and in various informal, underground schools). After 1989, especially in Poland and the Baltic States, history came back with avengeance and, as the Poles and Baltic states joined the European Union, they made sure to correct the record. In September 2019, on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two, the European Parliament passed a resolution noting, accurately, that the Soviet-N**i Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact opened the way to war, thus giving official weight to the actual narrative and getting in the way of Russia’s planned celebration in 2020 of the 75th anniversary of victory.

Fathers and grandfathers of the present Russian Don Cossacks who invaded Donbas in 2014, had fought for Hi**er in 1942-4...
11/03/2021

Fathers and grandfathers of the present Russian Don Cossacks who invaded Donbas in 2014, had fought for Hi**er in 1942-45 and surrendered to the British in Austria in April 1945. They were handed over to the Soviet Military police together with their wives and girlfriends. Commemorative plaques to the various Russian 'Atamans' still exist both in the Rostov area and in several Russian émigré centres in France and in the USA.

Regarding the "Waffen SS Grenadier Divisions", one needs to acknowledge that MULTIPLE European nations (including Dutch, Norwegians, and many other nations) had formed their own volunteer Grenadier Divisions to fight Stalin's communists armies - this was not just specific to Roland and Nachtigall battalions..

However, only the RUSSIAN Liberation Army became recognised as a "Liberation Army" under German command and had a former Soviet Lieutenant General Andrey Vlasov in command with a whole staff of Russian generals at his disposal. There simply was NO OTHER "Liberation Army" serving Hi**er's High-Command comparable in size, in training, and in equipment to that of the RUSSKAYA OSVOBODITELNAYA ARMIYA (ROA)!

No other nationals were allowed by the Germans to run their own "liberation" centre with their own propaganda newspapers, appeals, etc., like the ROA did. And the key Russians at Hi**er's service were former officers of General Denikin's White Russian Army that were defeated by Lenin and Trotsky in 1921.

Sister Josaphata (Michaelina) Hordashevska was born in Lviv on November 20, 1869. At the age of 18, influenced by the re...
10/03/2021

Sister Josaphata (Michaelina) Hordashevska was born in Lviv on November 20, 1869. At the age of 18, influenced by the retreats of the Basilian Fathers, she felt the call to consecrate her life to God. Together with Father Kyryl Seletskyi, pastor in Zhuzhel, and Father Yeremia Lomnytskyi OSBM, she established a new congregation, the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate, called to an active apostolate among the people. Today the Sisters Servants is the biggest female religious community in the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church.

Sister Josaphata’s holiness showed itself in her total dedication to her calling, in constantly embodying in her life Christ’s command to love God and neighbour and in humbly bearing all her difficulties and sufferings. She died on April 7, 1919, after a long and severe illness (tuberculosis of the bone), prophesying the day of her death, which she accepted consciously with prayer.

“She showed her love for her people through her heart-felt desire to lift them up morally and spiritually: she taught children, youth and women, served the sick, visited the poor and needy, taught liturgical chant and looked after the church’s beauty.” – From the testimony of Sister Filomena Yuskiv.

NOT WITH MILK AND BREAD, BUT WITH FIRE AND BULLETS.In the village of Dyuksyn (Kostopilshchyna) during an attack from sav...
09/03/2021

NOT WITH MILK AND BREAD, BUT WITH FIRE AND BULLETS.

In the village of Dyuksyn (Kostopilshchyna) during an attack from savage N**is, one villager did not want to flee like others, but remained in his dwelling. When the N**is came to him, he greeted them with milk and bread, to show acceptance of the savages, so they would spare his life. The N**is drank the milk, ate the bread, and then barbarically executed the naive villager (threw him into a fire alive).

Let this example teach everyone who has faith in the misguided N**is. Don’t greet them with milk and bread, but with fire, boiling water, bullets, scythes, axes, pitch-forks, whatever we can get our hands on. Beat, cut, whip the N**is at every step, wherever you come across them. Let Ukraine be a “hell on earth” for every enemy, and let them die in the same manner that they are preparing for us.

Death to the N**is and all their collaborators!
Long live the revolution of all the enslaved nations!
Long live the Ukrainian Insurgent Army!
Long live the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists!
Signed: UKRAINIAN INSURGENT ARMY (June 1943)

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