Massacres of Poles in Volhynia: Ukrainian Insurgent Army, World War II Crimes in Poland, Historiography of the Volyn Tragedy, Sluzhba Bezpeky

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Ukrainian Insurgent Army, World War II crimes in Poland, Historiography of the Volyn tragedy, Sluzhba Bezpeky, W adys aw Siemaszko, Korosciatyn massacre, By o sobie miasteczko..., Przebra e Defence, Huta Stepa ska, Janowa Dolina, Jozef Turowski, Zygmunt Rumel, Dmytro Klyachkivsky, Szczepan Siekierka, Paro la I massacre, Massacre of Wola Ostrowiecka, Massacre of Ostrowki, Ludwik Malinowski, Vasyl Sydor, Kisielin massacre, Kuty defence, Kysylyn, Pavlivka, Kurdyba Warkowicki, Palykorovy, Brzuska, Kysorychi, Stara Huta, Starovyzhivskyi Raion, Henryk Cybulski, Ewa Siemaszko, Pa ska Dolina, Hucisko Oleskie, eniowka, Chervonohorod, Dominopol, Adamy. Excerpt: The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian: , Ukrayins'ka Povstans'ka Armiya, or UPA) was a large and well organized Ukrainian nationalist military and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both Underground and Communist Poland. The group was the military wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Bandera faction (the OUN-B), originally formed in Volyn (northwestern Ukraine) in the spring and summer of 1943. The OUN's stated immediate goal was the establishment of a united, independent national state on Ukrainian ethnic territory. Violence was accepted as a political tool against foreign as well as home enemies of their cause, which was to be achieved by a national revolution led by a dictatorship that would drive out the occupying powers and set up a government representing all regions and social groups. The organization began as a resistance group and developed into a guerrilla army. During its existence, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fought against the Poles and the Soviets as their primary opponents, although the organization also fought against t...