Movie on WWII Ukrainian massacres of Poles

[pieter]

Movie on WWII Ukrainian massacres of Poles
29.08.2014 10:05

Award-winning director Wojciech Smarzowski will begin filming a movie about the WWII massacres of Poles by Ukrainian guerrillas this autumn.


Image: Glow Images

Smarzowski's film, which has the working title of Hatred (Nienawisc), is based on a 2006 collection of tales by author Stanislaw Srokowski. Srokowski has claimed that the film will be a positive factor in Polish-Ukrainian relations. “This film will not divide people,” he told culture site wnas.pl this week.

“On the contrary, as I see it, this is a film that will bring Poles and Ukrainians together, and likewise the whole world in the fight against fascist ideology,” he argued. Over 60,000 ethnic Poles are believed to have been slaughtered by pro-Ukrainian independence guerrillas from 1943 to 1944.

The killings took place in Nazi-occupied territory in former south east Poland, principally in the Volhynia region, but also in several other areas. Poles fought back, and it is estimated that about 2000-3000 Ukrainians were killed in Volhynia, and about 20,000 more when the fighting spread to other areas of south east Poland.

Wojciech Smarzowski is among Poland's most critically acclaimed directors, both at home and abroad. Ethnic tensions against the backdrop of World War II provided the subject for his award-winning 2011 movie Rose (Roza). (nh)

tags: Polish film, volhynia massacres, Wojciech Smarzowski

[pieter]

[pieter]

Ukrainian Fascism (OUN-UPA): Genocide of Jews and Poles (1941-1947)
A Listmania! list by Jan Peczkis "Scholar and Thinker" (Chicago IL, USA)


Ukrainians with the image of OUN-leader Bandera

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.). “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). ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vistula )

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.” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrubiesz%C3%B3w ) ignore the fact that the Ukrainian (and German) settlements attacked by Polish guerillas were part of the German-sponsored (SS-Gruppenführer 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-leader Bandera gets a Ukrainian national holiday. How long will itr take for the Ukrainians to admid that compatriots commited genocide against the Poles during the Second World War?

[Nictoshek]

Award-winning director Wojciech Smarzowski will begin filming a movie about the WWII massacres of Poles by Ukrainian guerrillas this autumn.

No doubt Putin and the Kremlin will endorse this movie wholeheartedly when it comes out.

[pieter]

Nicetoe,

From one side Russian stalinists of the NKVD murdered Poles during and after the Second Wolrd War, from the other side Ukrainian Nationalists from UPA (OUN) murdered Poles during and after the Second World War. The Story of Ukrainian and Polish resistance against the Sovjet, Polish and Czechoslovakian Stalinist communist armies, intelligence agencies (NKVD and UB (Urząd Bezpieczeństwa) and the communist police (militia) is often underestimated and is not very well know with the larger public.

Putin and his henchmen will use everything they can use. They ofcourse are perfectly trained in KGB techniques of using information of 'the enemy', each propaganda or news which will harm the Ukrainian Patriotic, Ukrainian independence and sovereignithy and thuis Ukrainian national cause.

Cheers,
Pieter