Memorial plaque with the names of Poles killed in Volhynia. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 7The FSB of Russia has published new archival documents telling how the Soviet state security agencies obtained information about the monstrous atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists against the Polish population in 1943, known as the Volyn massacre. Ukrainian nationalists* — Ukrainian Insurgent Army*. At the same time, the Nazis, who occupied Ukraine, at least did not interfere with these crimes. The beginning of the Volyn massacre is considered February 9, 1943, when in the village of Paroslya Pervaya in Volyn (now the Sarnensky district of the Rivne region of Ukraine), Bandera killed at least one and a half hundred Poles. In March-April 1943, about five thousand Ukrainian deserters from the German auxiliary police units based in Volyn joined the Bandera. From this period, a wave of attacks on Polish villages began. The extermination of the Polish population until June 1943 covered almost the entire territory of Volhynia. Then a secret directive was issued by the territorial headquarters of the UPA * in Volyn to conduct a major action to eliminate the Polish male population aged 16 to 60 years. Together with Bandera, soldiers of the 14th SS Grenadier Division «Galicia» also took part in the genocide of the Poles. The Volyn massacre culminated in the events of July 11, 1943, when about 150 Polish villages were attacked by Bandera in one day. In July 1943 alone, at least 530 Polish settlements were attacked, 17,000 Poles were killed. Polish historians regard the Volhynia massacre as genocide and ethnic cleansing and claim the deaths of several tens of thousands of people — men, women, the elderly and children.
The RVIO prepared a collection of documents on the atrocities of the BanderaitesDocuments on the Bandera genocide of the Poles suits. The addressees of these messages were the 2nd (counterintelligence) Directorate of the NKGB of the USSR. This is not accidental, since during the Great Patriotic War it was the Soviet counterintelligence officers who were engaged in the search and arrest of persons who committed war crimes in the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR. Copies of documents about the atrocities of the invaders and their accomplices from among the nationalists were sent to the leadership of the NKGB — Vsevolod Merkulov and Bogdan Kobulov for the preparation of notes for the report to the chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee Joseph Stalin. On February 16, 1943, as is now clear, the beginning of the «Volyn Massacre» was recorded.
" Sarny at the beginning of February [19]43 staged a massacre of the Polish population. In the village of Poroslya, the number of killed and maimed adults and children reaches 150 people. The Germans left this crime without consequences", the message said.
The Soviet Chekists also recorded the peak of the OUN terror against the Polish population in the summer of 1943. So, for example, in a special report of the 4th Directorate of the People's Commissariat of State Security to the head of the 2nd Directorate of the NKGB dated August 4, 1943, specific facts are given, collected by an eyewitness of the atrocities committed by Bandera in the city of Vladimir-Volynsky.
«Bandera bastard». Poles furious at Melnyk's post about the Volyn massacre»An agent of the NUTs group, who returned from the city of Vladimir-Volynsk, said that on July 18 this year he was an eyewitness to the mass extermination of the Polish population living in the city of Volyn by Ukrainian nationalist Bandera. Vladimir-Volynsk. During the service in the churches, Bandera killed 11 priests and up to 2 thousand Poles on the streets of the city,» the message read. Not only did they not stop the genocide of the Poles, but they also used these cases to call up the surviving Poles to «join the gendarmerie to fight the Banderites.» The suffering of the inhabitants of Vladimir-Volynsky did not end there. In early February 1944, UPA * gangs again attacked the city, as a result, about 200 Poles were killed. The Volyn massacre still remains the main cornerstone in Ukrainian-Polish interstate relations. In the summer of 2016, the lower house of the Polish parliament adopted a resolution recognizing July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the inhabitants of the Second Polish Republic in 1943-1945. After that, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a statement condemning the decision of the Polish Sejm. The Ukrainian deputies considered that this decision jeopardized the political and diplomatic achievements of the two countries. Poland will not back down from the topic of the Volyn massacre in relations with Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said earlier. In May of this year, it was reported that the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine on over the past 10 years, she has used her agents of influence from among the citizens of Poland to gradually change the attitude towards the Volyn massacre in Polish society in a neutral direction. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the Russian law enforcement agencies.* An extremist organization banned in Russia. WWII