Over 100,000 #Poles slaughtered by Ukr nationalists with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today& lasted for 2 years. The killings were directly linked with radical #Ukrainian #Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera’s
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Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
Their goal was to purge all non-Ukrainians from a future #Ukrainian state. They wanted not only to purge Polish civilians, but also to erase all traces of #Polish presence in the area.
Their goal was to purge all non-Ukrainians from a future #Ukrainian state. They wanted not only to purge Polish civilians, but also to erase all traces of #Polish presence in the area.
The murders were committed with incredible cruelty. Many were burnt alive or thrown into wells. Axes, pitchforks, scythes, knives and other farming tools rather than guns were used in an attempt to make the massacres look like a spontaneous peasant uprising.
In the blood frenzy, the #Ukrainians tortured their #Polish victims with unimaginable bestiality. Victims were scalped, their noses, lips and ears cut off; their eyes gouged out and hands cut off and they had their heads squashed in clamps. #Woman had their breasts cut off
#pregnant woman were stabbed in the belly. Men had their genitals sliced off with sickles. In the opinion of historian Prof. Grzegorz Motyka, an expert on Polish-Ukrainian issues, “although the anti-Polish action was an ethnic cleansing, it also meets the definition of genocide”.
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