The state is for man, not man for the state.

"A nation that does not respect its past does not deserve the respect of the present and has no right to a future"

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

🥹

[The state is for man, not man for the state. @QuietVoiceX]

@IrishUnity

[The Redeemed @TheIronWarden]

⛨ Deus Vult ⛨

[The state is for man, not man for the state. @QuietVoiceX]

@Mick_O_Keeffe “The English are long gone”? Yet some still claim the North as theirs. Michael’s point is precisely the hypocrisy: invoke “saving Ireland” when useful, while brushing aside conquest, Plantation, partition and An Gorta Mór. A new “common enemy” cannot erase Ireland’s past.

[The state is for man, not man for the state. @QuietVoiceX]

@KildareCoCo @KildareCoCo A simple accountability question:

How many people aged 60+/65+ are currently at risk of homelessness in Kildare?

What prevention is actually offered, how many received permanent housing, and how many Age Friendly / Older Persons homes are available now?

@kfmradio

[Robert Bąkiewicz @RBakiewicz]

Panie @Amb_Berger, zapraszam do wysłuchania słów Anny Kraczkowskiej. To krótka lekcja historii, której celowo nie uczycie w swoich szkołach. Zero reparacji, miliony ofiar i niekończąca się niemiecka buta. A Was wszystkich proszę o mocne RT! Niech to wreszcie dotrze do niemieckiej opinii publicznej.

🇵🇱 Chciałabym dzisiaj przypomnieć całemu światu o morderstwach, eksterminacji i nieludzkim okrucieństwie Niemców, które miały miejsce tutaj w Polsce, w mojej ojczyźnie. I to wcale nie tak dawno temu. Od tych wydarzeń minęło zaledwie 81 lat. To bardzo krótki czas. Świadkowie tych wydarzeń, świadkowie tych wydarzeń wciąż żyją wśród nas.

I tak, mówię niemieccy zbrodniarze, ponieważ to nie była mała, odizolowana grupa tak zwanych nazistów. Nie, to był prawie cały naród, naród niemiecki, który wspierał zbrodniarzy Hitlera, a nawet brał w tym udział. Polska była największą ofiarą niemieckich zbrodniarzy.

Niemcy zorganizowali w Polsce machinę przemysłowego ludobójstwa. Spalili w krematoriach kilka milionów Polaków. Budowali obozy koncentracyjne nie tylko dla dorosłych, ale także dla małych polskich dzieci, które umierały z wycieńczenia. Wymordowali polską elitę. Całkowicie zbombardowali polskie miasta. Ukradli setki tysięcy dzieł sztuki i dóbr kultury.

Doszło również do szokującego zezwierzęcenia Niemców, jak produkcja rękawiczek i torebek z ludzkiej skóry, ze skóry Polaków, a także produkcja mydła z ludzkiego tłuszczu dorosłych i dzieci.

Dlatego zwracam się do całej międzynarodowej opinii publicznej. Czy wiecie, że Niemcy nie zapłacili Polsce ani jednego euro? Nic. Zero. To typowe dla Niemiec. Arogancja, bezczelność i hipokryzja.

Dlatego apeluję również do międzynarodowych instytucji i szefów rządów o wsparcie Polski w żądaniu reparacji. Międzynarodowy porządek musi opierać się na pociąganiu do odpowiedzialności za zbrodnie. Niemcy muszą zapłacić Polsce reparacje.

My, Polacy, nie zapomnimy tego Niemcom i cały świat też tego Niemcom nie zapomni. Dziękuję.

@RepublikaTV

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

At 5:00 a.m., shortly after the German attack began, troops of Jozef Tiso’s Slovak Republic crossed the Polish border without a declaration of war.

Around 50,000 Slovak soldiers supported Germany’s 14th Army in operations in southern Poland, including Podhale, Spisz and the Carpathians. Slovakia also made its territory, railways and airfields available to the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe.

After the campaign, Hitler rewarded Slovakia with parts of Polish Spisz and Orawa.

🔎Read about the Slovak participation in the 1939 invasion of Poland. https://t.co/PvcjdSBBK4

[Slavic Networks @SlavicNetworks]

🚨ALARMING: GERMAN COMPANIES SELL POLES WORSE VERSIONS OF THE SAME PRODUCTS — MILKA, TCHIBO, JACOBS, LINDT — WHILE KEEPING THE BETTER ONES FOR GERMANY 🇩🇪🔥🇵🇱

A Polish video comparing supermarket shelves shows the same big brands sold in Poland with noticeably inferior ingredients and recipes than the versions sold in Germany.
Milka chocolate in Poland has a different composition.
Tchibo and Jacobs coffee packages sold to Poles use cheaper blends and stronger Robusta notes.
Lindt bars with German barcodes contain higher-quality ingredients than the ones stocked for the Polish market.
The message is simple: Western companies, especially German ones, treat Polish consumers as second-class customers. Same brand name, same packaging style — worse product.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It is visible on the ingredient lists.
While politicians talk about European equality and the single market, the shelves tell a different story.
Are Poles still the EU’s second-class consumers?

[The state is for man, not man for the state. @QuietVoiceX]

@does_derek https://t.co/oBpkNaPSqF

[Trust In Trump 47🇺🇸 @Trustintrump47]

🚨RIGHT NOW IN THE OVAL OFFICE:

Trump exploded.

Fist against the table. Voice booming like thunder:

“They’re invading us in Europe!
It’s a complete, total, merciless invasion!
And the United Kingdom… is suspect number one.”
He didn’t stop at the rage.
He dropped the bomb no one expected:
“I’m going to launch the Western Survival Pact.
Whoever signs: slams borders shut, deports en masse, and defends their culture to the death.
Whoever doesn’t sign… stands alone against the wave.
And the first one who has to sign… is the United Kingdom.
Or it sinks.”

Deathly silence.
No one breathed.
Western Civilization just received its ultimatum.

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Another summer sunday in Warsaw…

For 7 decades, free-of-cost Chopin music concerts have been organized in Warsaw’s most beautiful park every Sunday during the summer.

Families and friends enjoy the relaxed and very peaceful atmosphere.

[DolnyMokotow 🇵🇱 @DolnyMokotow]

Tak to wygląda.
#1sierpnia1944
#GodzinaW
#RondoDmowskiego
#Warszawa
🇵🇱
Każdemu z Was ŻYCZĘ z całego serca
aby choć raz
choć raz
mógł tam z nami być.
#MarszPowstaniaWarszawskiego
#PowstanieWarszawskie
#63dnichwały
#PW1944
#Pamiętamy
🤍❤️

[The state is for man, not man for the state. @QuietVoiceX]

The Chapel Hill Gang - Talk To Me Baby https://t.co/QwbT15jDxR przez @YouTube

[mynextchapter @Deeteem1]

The CIA Knew: How America Recruited the Men Who Massacred 100,000 Poles — and Buried the Evidence

There is a document sitting in the CIA's public reading room that the American government would prefer you never read carefully.

It was declassified only after a federal lawsuit forced it into the open. It was scrubbed — pages removed, sections blacked out — before release. And even in its sanitized form, it contains an admission so stark that it reframes the entire modern debate about Ukraine, the UPA, and why the West has never properly confronted what happened in Volhynia in 1943.

The document concerns a man named Mykola Lebed. And through Lebed, it concerns the CIA's deliberate decision to recruit, protect, and rehabilitate the leadership of the organization that issued the order to exterminate 100,000 Polish civilians.

This is that story.

What Happened in Volhynia

Before Lebed, before the CIA, before the Cold War calculations — there were the villages.

Between 1943 and 1945, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), conducted a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Polish civilian population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia — territory that was then occupied Poland.

This was not warfare between combatants. It was the methodical extermination of a civilian population.

In June 1943, UPA commander in Volhynia Dmytro Klyachkivsky issued a written order for the "general physical liquidation of the entire Polish population." His secret directive stated: "We should make a large action of the liquidation of the Polish element. As the German armies withdraw, we should take advantage of this convenient moment for liquidating the entire male population in the age from 16 up to 60 years. We cannot lose this fight, and it is necessary at all costs to weaken Polish forces. Villages and settlements lying next to the massive forests should disappear from the face of the earth."

This was not improvised violence. It was policy.

On July 11, 1943 — a Sunday — UPA detachments simultaneously attacked 99 Polish villages across Volhynia at dawn. In a single day, 8,000 Poles were killed. Men, women, children. Many were not shot but hacked with axes, stabbed with pitchforks, and burned alive in their homes and churches.

By the end of July 1943, the UPA had raided 530 Polish villages and settlements, killing 17,000 people. August brought another wave: 301 settlements attacked, 8,000 more killed. In the village of Wola Ostrowiecka, 529 people were murdered — 220 of them children under the age of 14. In Ostrówki, 438 people died, including 246 children under 14.

When it was over, an estimated 100,000 Polish civilians had been killed. The Polish Parliament formally recognized these events as genocide in 2016. Ukraine has never done so.

The mass graves remain largely unexhumed. Polish families still do not know where their grandparents are buried.

Enter Mykola Lebed

Mykola Lebed was the OUN's third-in-command and the head of the SB ��� the Sluzhba Bezpeky, the organization's internal security force. He was one of the central figures in the Ukrainian nationalist movement during and after World War II.

His wartime record was not hidden. It was documented.

In 1934, Lebed participated in the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki. He was tried and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. He escaped when Germany invaded Poland in 1939.

During the war, Lebed ran the SB — the organization that, according to the CIA's own files, carried out "murders of dissenters from the OUN line." According to U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps memos from 1948, Lebed "killed some Ukrainian partisans who were fighting for the same cause."

In his own 1946 booklet on the history of the UPA, Lebed described the UPA's mission as being "to clear the forests and the surrounding areas of foreign elements." CIA-adjacent historian Philip Friedman, cited in the CIA's own documents, stated that this meant "not only Poles but Jews and Russian partisans as well."

The CIA's own declassified file on Lebed states it plainly: "Massacres and other acts of terror were also carried out against civilians, against Soviet prisoners of war, against entire Polish villages in the Ukraine, and against Jews fleeing from Nazi persecution."

There is no ambiguity in this language. The CIA, in its own internal documents, acknowledged that the organization Lebed led carried out massacres of Polish civilians.

The Recruitment

In 1947, two years after the war ended, the CIA recruited Mykola Lebed.

He was brought to the United States in 1949 under an assumed name, bypassing normal immigration law through a provision of the CIA Act of 1949 — a classified section allowing the agency to import 100 individuals per year "for reasons of national security regardless of their past."

His entry was so sensitive that it required sign-off at the highest levels of the U.S. government. According to the declassified GAO report and CIA files, Attorney General James P. McGranery, CIA Director General Walter Bedell Smith, and the Commissioner of Immigration all secretly agreed to admit Lebed to the United States.

His wartime record was concealed from immigration and naturalization authorities.

In 1957, Mykola Lebed became a United States citizen. He settled in Yonkers, New York. His telephone number was listed under his real name.

For decades, he ran CIA-funded Ukrainian émigré intelligence operations — the Prolog Research Corporation, a CIA front organization operating out of New York — producing propaganda and intelligence directed at Soviet Ukraine. He was, in effect, the CIA's primary Ukrainian asset throughout the Cold War.

The organization whose leadership massacred 100,000 Polish civilians was being run, with American taxpayer funding, out of a brick house in Westchester County.

The Cover-Up

The full story of Lebed's recruitment only began to surface in the 1980s, when a Village Voice investigation — later confirmed by a General Accounting Office probe — identified him as "Subject D" in a classified federal study of Nazi collaborators assisted in entering the United States.

The GAO found that despite its overall conclusion of "no evidence of any U.S. agency program to aid Nazis," Lebed was one of five cases involving individuals with "undesirable or questionable backgrounds who received some individual assistance in their U.S. immigrations."

When the CIA file on Lebed was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, investigators found pages missing — removed from the National Archives by the CIA four years after the events in question. Other sections were blacked out under FOIA exemptions citing "intelligence sources" and "national security."

Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, who reviewed the GAO findings, called the Lebed case "extremely disturbing," noting that the CIA had previously assured Congress it had never used the 100-person immigration provision to facilitate the entry of Nazi collaborators.

The CIA declined to comment.

Why the West Never Confronted the UPA

The Lebed case is not an isolated incident. It is the mechanism that explains one of the most persistent mysteries of postwar European history: why the mass murder of 100,000 Polish civilians by the UPA remained almost entirely unknown in the West for decades — and why Ukraine was never pressured to confront it.

The answer is structural. The CIA built its postwar Ukrainian intelligence apparatus on OUN and UPA networks. Acknowledging that these networks had committed genocide against Poles would have undermined the entire Cold War operation. So the knowledge was classified, the perpetrators were protected, and the historical narrative was managed.

OUN propaganda presenting its members as pure anti-Soviet freedom fighters — propaganda that began in 1943 when Germany's defeat became obvious and the OUN began rehabilitating its image — was not only tolerated by American intelligence. It was actively amplified. Lebed's CIA-funded Prolog Research Corporation pumped this narrative into Ukrainian diaspora communities in the United States for thirty years.

The result is the world we live in today. A generation of Ukrainian Americans raised on an OUN-sanitized version of history. A Ukrainian political culture in which UPA figures are national heroes. A Zelensky government that names Special Operations units "Heroes of the UPA." And a baffled Western press corps that has no framework to understand why Poland is furious.

They have no framework because the CIA spent forty years ensuring they wouldn't.

What the Documents Confirm

Let us be precise about what the declassified record establishes:

One. The CIA was aware, by its own internal documentation, that the UPA conducted massacres of Polish civilians. This is not disputed. It is in their files.

Two. The CIA recruited, protected, and brought to the United States the leadership of the organization that carried out those massacres — specifically Mykola Lebed, the OUN's third-in-command and head of its security apparatus.

Three. The CIA concealed Lebed's wartime record from immigration authorities, removed documents from the National Archives, and successfully prevented his prosecution for war crimes for decades.

Four. Using Section 8 of the CIA Act of 1949, the agency imported Lebed at the highest levels of government approval — with the Attorney General and CIA Director personally signing off.

Five. Lebed then ran CIA-funded operations producing propaganda that shaped the postwar Ukrainian diaspora's historical memory — systematically erasing the UPA's crimes against Poles from the narrative.

This is not conspiracy theory. It is the documented record of the United States government, available in the CIA's own public reading room.

2026: The Bill Comes Due

On May 26, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree naming an active Special Operations Forces unit "Heroes of the UPA."

On June 19, 2026, Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoked Zelensky's Order of the White Eagle — Poland's highest national honor.

Zelensky mailed it back.

Western media called it a "diplomatic spat." A disagreement between allies. A distraction benefiting Moscow.

It is none of those things.

It is the final installment of a bill that has been accumulating since 1943. A bill that the CIA helped defer for eighty years by recruiting the killers, burying the evidence, and funding the propaganda that told the world there was nothing to see.

Poland has been asking for eighty years. For recognition. For excavation of the graves. For an acknowledgment that 100,000 of its civilians were systematically murdered by the organization now honored on the shoulder patches of Ukrainian Special Forces.

The CIA knew. The U.S. government knew. They made a choice.

Poland is still waiting for someone to un-make it.

Primary Source Documents

CIA Document: "To Catch a Nazi" — The Mykola Lebed File Declassified in Part, Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/01/17 CIARDP9000965R000201220002-6
https://t.co/KcR9ikXSqB

CIA Document: The History, Development, and Organization of the Ukrainian Resistance Movement, Including the OUN, the UPA, and the UHVR Approved For Release 2002/01/04 CIA RDP8300415R010100150006-6 https://t.co/ZdjxsHqnsx

CIA Document: AERODYNAMIC Operations File — Ukrainian Resistance
https://t.co/WUM8iFaRjW

CIA Document: Mykola Lebed Personal File — Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act
https://t.co/gxmgdfLFnw

[Europe of the Jagiellonians @EJagiellonians]

Polish civilians murdered, including a pregnant woman and several-year-old children, by bandits from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on June 16, 1944 near the village of Zatyle. UPA is not something that should be a model for Ukrainian identity.
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▶️ https://t.co/YR5yN7lQkg

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇵🇱 Poland will not accept the EU's migrant quotas, nor will it pay fines for them.

The EU's New Pact on Migration officially came into effect last Friday, which means every EU member state is obligated to either accept relocated migrants or pay a penalty of €20,000 for each declined migrant.

But Poland successfully secured a formal temporary exemption from this migration scheme.

Poland cited ongoing hybrid warfare and illegal border crossings at its eastern border, which are recognized as a significant security strain.

The EU's migration framework allows member states facing severe migration pressure to apply for partial or full exemptions from sharing the pool of migrants with their neighbors.

[Crypto Tice @CryptoTice_]

BREAKING:

Poland just told the EU to go to hell.

President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act.
"The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it."

One man. One veto.

The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship machine in the Western world.

Destroyed.

Governments deciding what you can post.
Governments deciding what you can share.
Governments deciding what is true.

Poland said no.

While Germany complied.
While France complied.
While the entire EU rolled over.

The same Poland that surpassed the ECB in gold reserves.
The same Poland that has been right about everything.

Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech.

The EU doesn't want free citizens.
It wants manageable ones.

Poland just reminded them what freedom actually looks like.

Every European should be paying attention.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

People were hacked to death with axes, burned alive, and murdered specifically because they were Polish. The Polish parliament has repeatedly classified the atrocities as genocide. Yet somehow we are supposed to pretend this is merely a misunderstanding.

[WW2 The Eastern Front @ShoahUkraine]

THE GENOCIDE OF POLES IN VOLHYNIA AND EASTERN GALICIA

This is the first installment of a deep dive into one of the darkest chapters of the Second World War: the genocide of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943 and 1945.

Roughly 100,000 people, the overwhelming majority of them unarmed women, children, and the elderly, were murdered in a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Polish presence from the region. Over the coming installments, I will examine it piece by piece: the land and its people, the long roots of the conflict, the ideology that drove the killings, and the course of the massacres themselves. This is where it begins.

Part 1

Between 1943 and 1945, the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia was subjected to a sustained campaign of mass murder and ethnic cleansing. The killings were planned and carried out chiefly by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military arm of the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), often with the participation of local Ukrainian villagers. Their goal was the permanent elimination of Poles from territories the nationalist movement intended to incorporate into a future, ethnically homogeneous Ukrainian state.

The campaign was distinguished not only by its scale but also by its extraordinary cruelty. Entire communities were destroyed in coordinated dawn attacks. Victims were killed with axes, scythes, pitchforks, knives, saws, and firearms. Churches and farm buildings crowded with people were set ablaze, and bodies were often mutilated to terrorize survivors and discourage any thought of return. The overwhelming majority of those killed were unarmed civilians: women, children, the elderly, and farming families.

Historians' estimates of the Polish death toll vary, but the most widely cited figures place the total at roughly 100,000 across all affected regions, with approximately 50,000 to 60,000 killed in Volhynia and a further 30,000 to 40,000 in Eastern Galicia and the neighboring southeastern voivodeships.

Geographic and Demographic Setting:

Volhynia and Eastern Galicia lay within the Kresy Wschodnie (Eastern Borderlands), the multiethnic eastern provinces of interwar Poland.

Volhynia corresponded to the Wołyń Voivodeship in the northwestern part of present-day Ukraine. Eastern Galicia comprised the Lwów, Tarnopol, and Stanisławów voivodeships farther south.

For centuries, these lands had been home to an intermingled population of Ukrainians (Ruthenians), Poles, Jews, and smaller communities of Czechs, Germans, Armenians, and Russians.

The demographic structure was decisive in shaping what followed. In Volhynia, Ukrainians formed a large rural majority, accounting for around two-thirds of the population, while Poles, at roughly one-sixth, were concentrated in towns, administrative and professional positions, and among landowners and recent agricultural settlers.

In Eastern Galicia, the Polish proportion was larger, and Poles predominated in the cities, above all in Lwów, while Ukrainians dominated the surrounding countryside. The Ukrainian population of Volhynia was largely Orthodox, while that of Galicia was predominantly Greek Catholic (Uniate).

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) is responsible for the genocide in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

By decision of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Independent Special Operations Center “North” will be named in honour of the “Heroes of the UPA.” The granting of this name was justified as an effort to “restore the historical traditions of the national army.”

The Ukrainian authorities’ promotion of the cult of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army must provoke opposition from all those who remember the activities of this formation.

Founded in 1942, the UPA was based on the ideological foundation of the so-called “Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalist” from 1929, which includes, among others, the following statement: “You will not hesitate to commit even the greatest crime if the good of the cause demands it.”

This was a prophetic announcement of the genocide committed against Poles in the years 1943–1945 in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.

The Volhynia Massacre was a method of building an ethnically homogeneous Ukrainian state, one devoid of the minorities inhabiting those lands, mainly Poles and Jews. “With the beginning of military operations for independence,” declared one of the program documents of the OUN faction led by Stepan Bandera, “the question of national minorities must be resolved at all costs. To resolve this issue, representatives of national minorities, enemies of the people, must be eliminated.”

Organised attacks on Polish villages began in February 1943 and continued until 1945. The peak of the UPA atrocities came on Sunday, July 11, 1943, when thousands of inhabitants were massacred in nearly 100 Polish villages in Volhynia.

In the following months, the genocide carried out by the UPA in Volhynia also spread to Eastern Galicia, the Chełm region, and the Rzeszów region. “You observe the methods of operation in Volhynia - do the same in your own area. You will prevail. [...] The OUN-UPA must have authority among the masses.

The masses must believe in you and follow you. If someone does not wish to believe in the UPA, in you, and in the leadership, they must feel the hard and vengeful punishing hand,” stated an appeal addressed to UPA members in the Chełm region in the spring of 1944.

Polish historians estimate that approximately 120,000 Poles - including women, the elderly, and children - were killed at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. Victims also included Ukrainians who warned their Polish neighbours of the approaching danger.

🔎To learn more about the Volhynia Massacre, we recommend viewing our website:
https://t.co/SYZrF24PqG