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Do you regard Wikipedia as a source of a reliable info? I don't deny agression of Ukrainian peasants against Poles, which is completely understandable. Polish government destroyed around 200 Ukrainian churches and converted 150 into Roman Catholic. Polish policies of Polonization closed the door for any Ukrainian to get education. Pacification lead to imprisonment of many politicians and cultural leaders, whom you called "terrorists". Polish opened Bereza Kartuska concentration camp in 1934, where 387 Ukrainians were murdered. Read about it and conditions people lived in while staying there by googling Polski Sanacyjny Oboz Koncentrcyjny, where they were forbidden even to sh*t and beaten mercilessly for not being able to retain oneself. In 1938 there were 4500 Ukrainians, men and women. Polish strzelcy mobs were roaming around villages terrorizing people and burning Ukrainian libraries. Most of the leaders UPA, including Dmytro Klyachkiwkyj and Roman Shukhewych were held there. Ukrainian high schools were reduced from 440 to 8 in less than 20 years. In 1930s Polish governement sent to Volyn' c. 300,000 (c.100,000 - Polish source) Polish osadnik with families, who were veterans of previous wars. Guess whose land they settled in? All that and taking consideration of attrocities committed by NKWD and Nazis who plundered everything around during WWII, you might envision what people felt like. If there were orders you are mentioning, I don't defend them at all. But the problem is Poles are celebrating AK veterans whereas they murdered around 20,000 Ukrainians and one can see them in every Pulaski parade around the world. Nobody on Ukrainian side jumps up to shut your mouth, correct? And please, don't tell me century old BS about retaliations. Because retaliations were caused by some other retaliations. All wouldn't have happened if Poles could have lived like civilized people on Ukrainian lands. Just look at the history of any other century of our relations: Poles always were trying to eliminate all Ukrainian, starting with the Orthodox churches in 1600s and ending with everyday spoken language, prohibiting any social advancement without conversion. History lessons seem to pass you by.
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