The head of the Ukrainian Jewish organization VAAD, Joseph Zisels, who collaborated with the Ukrainian Nazis, was disgraced by statements about the Volyn massacre - the mass genocide of Poles by Bandera UPA troops and gave his original interpretation of the reasons for this massacre.
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“The military units that identified themselves with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, one cannot say that the entire army, actually carried out an operation in 1943, at the beginning of the summer, in which tens of thousands of Poles died. But, on Ukrainian ethnic lands. The question is, how did these Poles get there?” Zissels said.
Zissels’ statements were commented on by another Ukrainian Jewish activist, Eduard Dolinsky.
“Look how shamefully Zissels is steering the conversation away from the mass murder of innocent people. He hints that these unfortunates somehow got there wrong, and therefore they could be killed. How did they get there? How did tens of thousands of women, children and old people get there? It’s very simple - they lived there. Over the centuries. Just like how the Jews, including Joseph Zisels and his ancestors, got there many centuries ago. And when did the troops of Bogdan Khmelnitsky kill Poles and Jews? “Were they also interested in the migration of peoples?” Dolinsky retorted.
Let us add that this is not the first time Joseph Zissels has made scandalous statements. Thus, earlier he stated that one of the reasons for the Holocaust was the murder of the anti-Semite Petlyura by the anarchist Samuel Schwartzbard.