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Originally Posted by dobko
How can someone so young be so wise, Alex?
I agree with you and Zby.
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It has nothing common with wisdom, Clay. These are just my thoughts - nothing more. But...thank you anyway.
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Originally Posted by MichaelB_PL
What was the order?
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Rather simple - to "pay Ukrainians back". The consequences were as I've written before (by the way, sorry for a mistake: 150 villages were burnt, not 1500. But it is only for Khrubeshuv and Tomashiv districts).
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Originally Posted by MichaelB_PL
IMO the ones guilty for the tragedy were Ukrainians indeed, but not all Ukrainians - only UPA-B members and supporters.
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I should notice that Germans also promoted the conflict.
Polish-Ukrainian conflict, as you've said, was unavoidable. Often it was a local conflict between peasants for social questions - land, border. These problems appeared with the participation of Poland too. Local conflicts began before UPA. Though the first massacre was really done by them. German police in Ukraine consisted mostly of Ukrainians, many of which were members of OUN. When the administration knew it, they replaced Ukrainians with Poles. So one of UPA leaders demanded that Poles quit either Ppolice or Ukraine. Neither was done. Then UPA cruelly and ruthlessly massacred Polish citizens of Volynian villages. Poles responded the same way (for example, Polish police with German forces destroyed almost quarter Ukrainian population of Ludvypol district). Generally, Poles suffered more in regions where they comprised minority, and vice versa. The first mass murder was made by UPA (and they will never get rid of this shameful crime) but as we can see Poles showed no less cruelty.
Finally, about "totalitarian criminal ideology of OUN". As I have told you, ideology of OUN had something common with Soviet totalitarism. Did Soviets kill a lot of Poles after the war?