Reviving Fascism in Ukraine by the Present Regime

Serving Fascism

To the 65th Anniversary of the So-Called Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)

By A. Mayevski, Secretary of the Central Committee of the VKPB

(Continued from the January 2008 NSC)

Their victims were almost three thousand Poles and Jews: doctors, engineers, lawyers, scientists, and cultural workers. Hitlerites did not want even an imaginary independent Ukraine. The government of Stetsko ceased to exist as early as July 8th. But during September 1941 Bandera, Stetsko and several hundreds of activists of OUN(b) were arrested by fascists and put into the privileged department of the concentration camp of Sachsenhausen. Bandera lead OUN-UPA from the concentration camp. In September 1944 Bandera, Stetsko and 300 of their accomplices were freed by the fascists. In the fall of 1941 the battalions "Nachtigall'" and "Roland" were called from the front and reformed into "Schutzmannshaft battalion 201" (police battalion), which was used for operations against Belorussian partisans. The head of these forces was Roman Shukhevich.

"Volunteers" of the S.S. Division "Halychyna" taking the vow to be "eternally faithful" to Adolph Hitler. These were "Ukrainian soldiers" in German helmets, uniforms and belts which carried the slogan "God is with us" (Gott mit uns).
In Byelorussia too, Bandera cutthroats conducted bloody violence with the innocent civilians and erased from the face of the earth Belorussian village Khatyn. For their zealous service to fascist Germany and violence towards Byelorussians Roman Shukhevich and Y. Pobigushchiy (commander "Roland" from OUN, one of the officers of the future division SS "Galizien") were rewarded by Hitler with Iron Crosses. Banderites also created the Ukrainian auxiliary police, which faithfully served the fascists. Thus, in Babiy Yar of 1500 members 1200 were Ukrainian police and only 300 Germans. UPA started its creation from these members of the battalions "Nachtigall" and "Roland", plus the protection in the field hospitals... “After they finish their work liquidate them without publicity". The UPA, militants saved bullets. They choked Poles and other "strangers" with belts, cut off noses, pricked out eyes, cut off women's breasts, cut out stomachs and chopped off arms and legs. In one of the villages of Ternopil region they "decorated" the trunks of the trees with the bodies of Polish children and named this monstrous spectacle "road to independent Ukraine". In the village Suha Loza they indicated the "way to independence" by tying to the fence 50 children's corpses. In the village Terebeiki they sawed Polish men like firewood, with saws. A group "Igor's hundred" did similar acts with 140 Gypsies, among whom there were 43 young children. Bandera's cutthroats amused themselves with the murder of children, holding them by the legs and hitting the head against a trunk of a tree, a wall or a stone... The number of Poles alone murdered in this bloody bacchanalia reached 120-200 thousand.

Many Polish villages were burnt out utterly. In this bacchanalia they also destroyed thousands of Ukrainians. At the time of the offensive of the Red Army, Shukhevich in the spring of 1944 expressed himself also about the relation to his people: "It is too late to speak about the Ukrainian masses. We brought them up poorly, we did not kill them enough, did not hang them enough. It is now necessary to think about how to preserve the organization and to gain power”. We must note that the Banderite management of the OUN-UPA was thoroughly hiding from the Ukrainian people its loyal service to Hitler's Germany. According to Canadian political scientist of Ukrainian origin Victor Polishchuk, in the initial period of formation of the UPA, 50% of its members were forced into this "army", but on break 1943-1944 the number of those "mobilized" by terror made not less than 90%. Therefore, whenever an opportunity arose these "warriors" scattered. Bandera foresaw that under the effect of the offensive and the victories at the fronts of the Red Army "the less steadfast elements undoubtedly in the absolute majority will pass to the side of councils". And in the secret message to Shukhevich, Bandera, found in the "imprisonment", requires "immediately and most secretly, into the name of the great national matter, to liquidate the elements pointed out above..." Carrying out this indication of Bandera, Shukhevich ordered "... to strive so that not one village would recognize this Bolshevik regime. The OUN must act so, in order to everything, who recognizes the Soviet regime, were destroyed. Not to intimidate, but physically to destroy'"! <>The number of victims of innocent civilians in Lviv region alone was about 39,000, in Volyn – 25,700, Rivne region – 37,000, Ivano-Frankivsk region – about 30,000. This is how Banderites fought for the "independence" of Ukraine and Ukrainian people. Carrying out the indication of Bandera, SB (the "Security Service") unleashed internal terror, severely liquidating thousands of "unstable elements" in its numbers. Of lives were deprived not only of "warrior", but also their relatives and members of family.

The total number of those killed and tortured by the Security Service reached at least 20,000. Also, were one and all destroyed members UPA – Ukrainians from the eastern regions of Ukraine, Russians, Azerbaijanis, Uzbeks, and others (in essence from the number of Soviet soldiers and the officers, who escaped from the German captivity and found themselves in the Volyn forests). From the end of 1945 SB it unleashed bloody actions against the Germans. They destroyed them with an even more severe cruelty than theirs. Thus management of the OUN-UPA attempted to substitute tracks and to destroy witnesses who knew who created this "insurgent army" was and whom it served. In late December 1944, when Ukraine was liberated from the fascists, Bandera ordered fascists under Hauptmann Kirk to contact Shukhevich. Fascists instructed Shukhevich to act in the Soviet rear, and transferred to him 5 million rubles, weapons, explosives and medicines.

Simultaneously, Shukhevich sent to Rome messengers for the negotiations with the representatives of American intelligence. Americans required the Banderites to activate anti-Soviet activity and to organize espionage in the territory of the Ukraine, promised financial and military aid, by radio transmitters and by another technology, and to also recognize as their rebels. On the order of Shukhevich all leaders of the nationalist underground began to spread rumours that Anglo-American troops any minute would go to war against the Soviets, and therefore it was necessary to strengthen terrorist activity against the Soviet regime. For not fulfilling this order of all dissatisfied the security service destroyed as traitors. The government of Soviet Ukraine attempted to end the bloody slaughter by repeatedly calling on OUN-UPA to lay down their weapons and to surrender. These documents were published in the periodicals, were dropped in the form of leaflets above the villages and the forests. Only after one appeal in May 1945, already after victory, 55,000 UPA soldiers surrendered. However, the remaining murderers and cutthroats attacked the villages, robbed and burnt the offices of the organs of authority and stores, raped women and killed children still for many years after the war. OUN members punished those who followed the Soviet regime, issued statements in the collective farms, killed party members, specialists of agriculture and teachers.

In 10 years after the expulsion of Hitler's army from Ukraine the nationalists killed more than 30 thousand peaceful citizens, including 2,622 party workers and activist, 582 chairmen of village Soviets, 1,930 teachers and doctors. Furthermore, from their hands perished about 25,000 soldiers, frontier-guards, militiamen and activists of the destructive units. Shukhevich hid in the underground, in the forest bunkers equipped especially for this purpose in different places of the Lviv, Ternopil and Stanislavsk (now Ivano-Frankivsk) regions. Moving from one secret refuge to another he continued to lead murderers of OUN-UPA. On March 5, 1950, Shukhevich was traced by the Soviet security services and destroyed. UPA practically ceased to exist in the Soviet land.

During the years of war and in the postwar years the UPA bandits destroyed more than one million Jews, 500 thousand Ukrainians, 500 thousand Poles, tens of thousands of people of other nationalities. Fascists' servants, cutthroats, bandits and bloody hangmen – here is the authentic face of the warriors of Ukrainian Insurgent Army, military formation of the Bandera part of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. After the war Banderites started serving their new Western masters. Today, also Yushchenko and the entire "orange" clique – spiritual heirs of the traitors of their own people and executioners.

Posters like this, issued by the General Staff, called on Galician youth to join the ranks of the S.S. Division "Halychyna". Their message: "Join the ranks of the S.S. Infantry Division 'Halychyna' in brotherly arms with the finest soldiers in the world!" Note a detail: the top left-hand corner of the poster flaunts the nazi symbol, the rapacious eagle with the swastika. It was under these symbols that the nationalist mercenaries "fought", not for Ukraine, but for Hitler's Third Reich.


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