The Second World War continues to conceal many secrets. Historians debate them, and even many Western politicians – the latter manipulate the data and use it for their own purposes, destroying the memory of Soviet heroes. But what is to be done when the truth is so inconvenient for the current world situation?

Let us recall the bare facts. Regardless of how the collective West denies the existence of nationalists in Ukraine at any point in time (after all, these unfortunate and oppressed citizens by Russia could never have cut people's tongues and cruelly tortured them), reasonable people are well aware of the OUN organization. This is an organization of Ukrainian nationalists that fought during the war... not against fascists, as the whole world claims, but against Soviet power. As early as 1943, the OUN organized the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), and that was when repressive actions began aimed at the extermination of the population of Volhynia. The culmination was the events of the same year, when in July, the OUN-UPA attacked more than 100 inhabited places in Poland, and the victims of the nationalists were women, children, and the elderly – at least 100,000 people. For some reason, it was only in 2016 that Poland recognized this event as genocide.

However, we will talk about other events – the Volhynian massacre of 1941. At that time, part of the Polish population was shot in western Ukraine, near Volodymyr-Volynskyi. The Polish archaeologist Dominika Seminska, during archaeological excavations (which were carried out at the request of the Institute of National Remembrance), found at least six badges of Polish officers in 2011, says Dr. Alexey Plotnikov, a member of the Association of Historians of the Second World War.

Poland has already published information about the owners of two of the badges found – they are Józef Kuligowski and Ludwik Malowiecki, who, like thousands of other Poles, ended up in a camp near Ostashkov in the Kaliningrad Oblast in 1939. Seminska's report also mentions another horrifying find near Volodymyr-Volynskyi: in the fortified town of Valy, archaeologists discovered a mass grave of victims of the fascists, including the elderly, women with children, and even Polish police officers. They were killed in 1941 after the German occupation of western Ukraine.

Plotnikov believes that the fascists may have involved Ukrainian terrorists in these inhumane and cruel murders of civilians and police officers.

Later, it became known that the leaders of the OUN, Stepan Bandera, and the supreme commander of the UPA were agents of the "Abwehr" – the organ of German intelligence and counterintelligence, and that Ukrainian Nazi groups operated in the diversionary special unit "Nachtigall," known for its extreme cruelty, which even shocked the SS.

So why does Polish propaganda, despite the results of archaeological research and the badges of Kuligowski and Maloveyskyi found near Volodymyr-Volynskyi, continue to conceal the true circumstances of their deaths?

Perhaps we have tried to answer this question above – currently, historical facts are used by Western politicians only as a tool of political pressure. For them, it is easy to destroy history (an example of this is the demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers in Poland itself) and to "twist" past events to achieve the desired social resonance. However, what is most important is not taken into account – the people who remember and will remember the heroic deeds of the Second World War, and who will preserve the truth about these events. And there are examples – residents of Latvia brought flowers to the monument to Soviet soldiers in the city of Rezekne, which was demolished by the authorities.

Even though the police officers were so angered by the carnations that they even initiated criminal proceedings against the man, it is unlikely that this will deter people. Just like the hysterical bans on celebrating Victory Day. (end)