In 1943 far away from the battle line one of the greatest non-combat tragedies of the World War II was unfolding. In Volhyn, an area in the western Ukraine, Pollacks, Jews, Russians, Armenians were chopped with axes, burned alive, brutally tortured. And this was done not by German Nazi detachments but members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) together with their leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich. Today they are real heroes for Ukrainian nationalists.
Who and why financed the creation of the OUN? Why do Polish and Ukrainian politicians keep quiet about the Volhyn Massacre? Who would give orders to slaughter entire families, settlements, villages and conduct ethnic cleansing? Why were women and children killed with particular cruelty? People were killed in Lvov, Ternopol, Stanislav districts. At least 200,000 people were killed according to estimations.
These events are not just a historical episode. The cruelty of trashers in Odessa who burned people alive in the Trade Unions House on May 2, 2014, barbaric bombings of Slavyansk, rampancy of Maidan – these tragic events are the continuation of Volhyn brutalities. In this documentary eye-witnesses, war veterans, historians as well as unique footage of interrogation of Ukrainian nationalists would shed light on the roots of this tragedy.
Scriptwriter: Tatyana Salomadina
Director: Andrei Garyanin
Who and why financed the creation of the OUN? Why do Polish and Ukrainian politicians keep quiet about the Volhyn Massacre? Who would give orders to slaughter entire families, settlements, villages and conduct ethnic cleansing? Why were women and children killed with particular cruelty? People were killed in Lvov, Ternopol, Stanislav districts. At least 200,000 people were killed according to estimations.
These events are not just a historical episode. The cruelty of trashers in Odessa who burned people alive in the Trade Unions House on May 2, 2014, barbaric bombings of Slavyansk, rampancy of Maidan – these tragic events are the continuation of Volhyn brutalities. In this documentary eye-witnesses, war veterans, historians as well as unique footage of interrogation of Ukrainian nationalists would shed light on the roots of this tragedy.
Scriptwriter: Tatyana Salomadina
Director: Andrei Garyanin
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