Ukrainian Fascism (OUN-UPA)

Genocide of Jews and Poles (1941-1947)

Jan Peczkis “Scholar and Thinker”

The list author says: “Fascism…genocide…collaboration…The OUN, a group of Ukrainian fascists (whose eventual goal was a totalitarian, ethnically-pure pan-Ukrainian empire) sought a Ukrainian-Nazi puppet state. Never promised it, they nevertheless collaborated in the Nazi genocide of Jews. Then they killed 180,000-300,000 Poles (limited only by Polish defenses) and thousands of independent-minded Ukrainians.

With Nazism nearing defeat, and fascism discredited, the OUN-UPA repainted itself as democracy-loving freedom fighters. The murders of Poles continued—until the Soviets crushed the UPA or expelled the remaining Poles (whichever locally happened first).

This was no more a Ukrainian-Polish conflict than the Holocaust being a Nazi-Jewish conflict. (Ukrainians killed by Poles, in later defense and reprisals, don’t exceed 5% of the reverse.). A“National liberation” is no excuse for genocide, and no wrong that Poles had ever done to Ukrainians finds any parallel. There is no valid relativization of the genocide of Poles with the later resettling of Ukrainians (Operation Wisla).

UPA apologists perform lie-and-deny and shift-blame tactics. We hear about “disguised Soviet bands” or “bandits” or UPA commanders all losing control. “Warnings to leave”, besides being half-truths, don’t minimize the genocide. Blame-the-victim excuses center on Poles cooperating with Germans and Soviets—laughable as these, even when true, were preceded, and greatly dwarfed, by their Ukrainian counterparts.

“Poles killed Ukrainians at Hrubieszow, etc.” ignore the fact that the Ukrainian (and German) settlements attacked by Polish guerillas were part of the German-sponsored (Odilo Globocnik’s) forced replacement of Poles with Germans and Ukrainians. Even these don’t compare with the numbers of Poles killed earlier by the OUN, in 1939 5th-column activities.

The Russians, after 50 years of obfuscation and lies, admitted fault for Katyn.

OUN-(genocidal – Admin.) leader Bandera gets a Ukrainian national holiday.

Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II “Still probably the best English-language description of the OUN-UPA extermination of the Poles of Volyn (Wolyn) and the defense efforts of Poles, often against overwhelming odds.”

The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999 “This work, by an American historian, includes an excellent, detailed, English-language description of the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles–based on a large collection of Ukrainian, Polish, and other sources. He doesn’t confuse this genocide with “the Polish-Ukrainian war”, which came later.”

Children of Terror “This work includes the detailed testimony of a then 9-year-old Polish girl who survived the OUN-UPA genocidal attack on her village by hiding in the tall wheat crop.”

Life Sentence: Memoirs of a Ukrainian Political Prisoner (The Canadian library in Ukrainian studies) “An English-language Ukrainian perspective on the OUN-UPA genocide of the Poles of Volhynia (Volyn, Wolyn).”

Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine “A detailed survey of contemporary Ukrainian thought on the OUN-UPA and its genocide of Poles.”

The Holocaust of Volhynian Jews: 1941-1944 “”First the Jews, then the Poles” was a common slogan of Ukrainian nationalists. A Jewish scholar describes how tens of thousands of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators played a major role in the Nazis’ extermination of the local Jews, and then put their murderous skills to use against the Poles in a do-it-yourself genocidal project. (For more specifically on Jews, see the bottom of this list).”

Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule “A Dutch historian, writing in the English language, describes WII Ukrainians as both victims and victimizers. He includes a fairly objective analysis of the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles, using many Ukrainian, Polish, and other sources.”

Wolyn Aflame “An English-language adventure-filled personal account of an eyewitness to the genocidal actions of the OUN-UPA against the Polish population, and the eventual Polish defenses that limited it. I know the author well, and had the privilege of translating this book into English. For more on Polish defenses, see the Peczkis Listmania: GUERILLA WARFARE–THE UNTOLD STORY OF WWII…”

Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe “This anthology includes a fairly objective English-language chapter, by Alexander V. Prusin, on the OUN-UPA genocide of the Poles. He realizes that attempts to blame it on the Poles are falsehoods.”

Ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, 1942-1946 (ZZWRP) “A concise English-language primer on the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles and the fallacious arguments advanced by OUN-UPA apologists to deny it or to blame the Polish victims.”

Polish self defence in Volhynia “A concise English-language introduction to the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles in Volyn (Wolyn, Volhynia) and the Polish defended villages that opposed it, saving about 150,000 Polish lives.”

Legal and Political Assessment of the OUN and UPA / Ocena polityczna i prawna OUN i UPA / Politychna i iurydychna otsinka OUN i UPA (English, Polish and Ukrainian Edition) “A scholarly outline of Ukrainian fascism, simultaneously in English, Ukrainian, and Polish, by a Ukrainian political scientist.”

UPA–Ukrainska povstanska armiia: Ii heneza, rist i dii u vyzvolnii borotbi ukrainskoho narodu za ukrainsku samostiinu sobornu … prolohu i suchasnosty) (Ukrainian Edition) “In this Ukrainian-language book, the OUN-UPA leader who is often accused of being the chief (but by no means only) architect of the genocide of Poles gives his side of the story. (See the detailed English-language review).”

Armiia Bez Derzhavy (Memorial) “In this Ukrainian-language memoir, the founder and original leader of the UPA, Taras Bulba-Borovets, discusses the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles, and condemns it. (See the detailed English-language review).”

Bitter Truth: The Criminality of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) : The Testimony of a Ukrainian “A detailed historical and political analysis of Ukrainian fascism (OUN-UPA), by a Ukrainian scholar, in the English language.”

Falszowanie historii najnowszej Ukrainy ;: Wolyn–1943 i jego znaczenie (Polish Edition) “A Ukrainian scholar presents an uncompromising analysis of attempts to minimize the Nazi collaborationism of the OUN-UPA and to repaint it as a democracy-loving organization. (see detailed English-language review). [There are other relevant works by Ukrainian authors that I cannot review or post on this Listmania because they are not presently carried by Amazon.]”

Eksterminacja ludnosci polskiej na Wolyniu w drugiej wojnie swiatowej (Polish Edition) “THE EXTERMINATION OF THE POLISH POPULATION OF WOLYN [VOLYN] IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Contains German, Soviet, Ukrainian, and Polish documents that refute the silly contention that there is no documentary evidence of this genocide.”

Ludobojstwo Dokonane Przez Nacjonalistow Ukrainskich Na Polakach W Wojewodztwie Tarnopolskim 1939-1946 “THE GENOCIDE, BY THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS, OF THE POLES OF TARNOPOL VOIVODSHIP. A systematic, village-by-village catalog.”

Antypolska Akcja Nacjonalistow Ukrainskich W Malopolsce Wschodniej W Swietle Dokumentow Rady Gownej Opiekunczej 1943-1944 (Polish Edition) “THE ANTIPOLISH ACTS OF THE UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS IN LITTLE EASTERN POLAND… Documents dating right from the time of the events prove that the genocidal massacres were not later inventions.”

Kresowa Ksiega Sprawiedliwych 1939-1945: O Ukraincach Ratujacych Polakow Poddanych Eksterminacji Przez OUN I UPA (Polish Edition) “THE KRESY BOOK OF RIGHTEOUS UKRAINIANS. Far from all Ukrainians supported the OUN-UPA genocide. In fact, this book catalogues 350 known instances when Ukrainians aided Poles, often at the cost of their own lives.”

Woyn 1939-1944: Eksterminacja Czy Walki Polsko-Ukrainskie: Studium Historyczno-Wojskowe Zmagan Na Woyniu W Obronie Polskosci, Wiary I “This is a detailed study based on Polish, Ukrainian, German, and Jewish sources. Includes a timeline of events. Polish arming, sporadic reprisals, cooperation with Soviet partisans and Germans, etc., far from justifying or excusing the OUN-UPA genocide, began months AFTER its start, and in otherwise-hopeless defense against it. (see the detailed English-language review).”

Ludobojstwo Nacjonalistow Ukrainskich Na Polakach Na Lubelszczyznie W Latach 1939-1947 (Polish Edition) “OUN-UPA apologists grasp at some sort of moral high ground by claiming that the killings occurred on “Ukrainian ethnographic territories.” Actually, the genocide also occurred on indisputably Polish-majority lands. In the Lublin-area alone, 13,000-14,000 Poles were murdered.”

Krwawe zniwa: Za Styrem, Horyniem i Slucza : wspomnienia z rodzinnych stron z czasow okupacji (Polish Edition) “BLOODY HARVESTS…A very detailed Polish-language study of the failed Polish defended village of Huta Stepanska, and surrounding areas.”

Church in Ruins (Shevchenko Scientific Society / Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 56) (Ukrainian and English Edition) “A Ukrainian emigre author provides an atlas of ruined Ukrainian churches in SE Poland in her postwar boundaries–all with deafening silence as to the cause of these events.”

German Rule in Russia: 1941-1945 “This classic work, although over-reliant on Ukrainian nationalist sources, includes a good overview of Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration. This book also makes it obvious that the Nazis never intended to create a Ukrainian-Nazi puppet state. To the contrary: Slavic lands to them were nothing more than objects of exploitation, and settling with ethnic Germans.”

The new order in Poland “Jewish author writes about the privileges of the Ukrainians under Nazi rule, and that the OUN was growing more fascist and Nazi-like. This was published before the Holocaust and long before the OUN-UPA genocide of the Poles, so its conclusions couldn’t possibly have been influenced by these later events.”

The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich: A Son’s Memoir “Jewish survivors from Dubno, Volyn mention the Ukrainian mass murders of Poles. In fact, the fugitive Jew actually feared getting killed as a Pole. (see the Peczkis review).”

The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization “Includes discussion of the 12,000–24,000 Jews initially murdered by OUN-organized bands in “pogroms” that often preceded the arrival of the Germans. Later, the Ukrainian collaborationist police (Schutzmannschaften), instrumental in the extermination of the Jews, consisted of 100,000 members. After their subsequent desertion, many of them formed the UPA, and turned on the Poles.”

The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads’ Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 “Includes the role of Ukrainian militia in the mass murders of Jews on the heels of the advancing Wehrmacht in 1941.”

To Speak for the Silenced “Elaborates on the instrumental role of the Nazi-collaborating Ukrainian police in the destruction of the Jews of Skala, eastern Galicia.”

Alliance For Murder: The Nazi-Ukrainian Nationalist Partnership “Contrary to its critics, who likely haven’t read it, this book is based on Jewish eyewitnesses, not “Soviet disinformation”. Nor is it primarily about Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration. It does, however, include OUN publications that specify its genocidal goals, which long predated WWII.”

Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine “A fine descriptive photographic atlas of the remnants of Jewish architecture in eastern Galicia, but with a rather superficial understanding of the OUN-UPA genocide of Poles.”

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