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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).

[Dariusz Matecki @DariuszMatecki]

Będą artykuły w TVN? Chłop od jachtów z KPO musi dać w nosa na komisji w Sejmie. Nie czepiałbym się. Nie mój nos. Ale ile durnych docinków o snusach słyszeliśmy w ciągu ostatnich miesięcy…

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Skandal Zeleńskiego. Dlaczego UPA mordowała Polaków na Wołyniu? — Piotr ... https://t.co/ooETEFlIjq przez @YouTube

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@DariuszWrobelek @Obywatelska_KO

[🇩🇪LilitThyra🩶 @LilitThyra]

So feiern übrigens die Polen den Gewinn ihrer Mannschaft...

Kaum ein Unterschied zu Paris! 🤡
Ausserdem haben sie den gesamten Platz beim Verlassen wieder aufgeräumt!

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@FremdenlegionPL niemcy sa krok za nimi

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@Heroiam_Slava 🤣😂👍

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@irgarner never did

[Marek Gróbarczyk @marekgrobarczyk]

I mamy skutki sprzedaży Portu Szczecin Niemcom. FAKTY zadają kłam propagandzie Tuska. Właśnie GUS opublikował najnowsze dane. EFEKT= 41% SPADEK PRZEŁADUNKÓW towarów masowych w zespole portów Szczecin-Świnoujście!!! Dotarło, zakuty łbie???

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@deusimpera @grok

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is the reality Ukrainians are living through.

But this grandmother was incredibly lucky.

Three russian glide bombs hit right next to her home, reducing it to rubble.

By sheer chance, volunteers were nearby — and managed to evacuate her just in time.

📽 BogdanZuyakov

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

A war crime they filmed and posted:

An Israeli soldier shares footage of his unit blowing up the Canada Well reservoir in Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, Rafah.

Aim: to ensure Palestinians cannot drink water.

They are demonic...

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@disclosetv

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The United States and Israel bombed Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran. Bombing a civilian airport is a war crime.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Pete Hegseth:

"We execute with precision...we fight with honor."

Bro, you bombed schoolgirls.

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