With a Medic about Bandera (with prologue and epilogue) (27.07.2022)

Date
27 July 2022
Duration
16:45
Platform
YouTube

A street dialogue between Vitaliy Dribnytsia and a Russian-speaking interlocutor who brings up the “Volhynia massacre.” The author names the events briefly and without apologism: 1943 in Volhynia, armed clashes between the Polish Home Army (AK) and the UPA, mutual ethnic cleansing of the civilian population — together with a caveat that Russia politicizes this tragedy. The fragment supplements the analysis of the question “was the OUN fascist” with the theme of the Volhynia tragedy.

Key moments

  1. 00:43 What the "Volhynia massacre" was: Poles call it a massacre, Ukrainians a tragedy; 1943, Volhynia
  2. 00:54 Armed clashes between the Polish Home Army (AK) and the UPA in Volhynia in 1943
  3. 01:02 Mutual ethnic cleansing: Poles killed Ukrainian civilians, the UPA killed Polish civilians
  4. 01:39 "This is a great tragedy in the history of two peoples" that Russia politicizes

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