Leader of Jewish pogroms honored in Ukraine
On the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine in Ternopil, a capsule will be laid at the site of the construction of a museum named after the former head of the OUN Security Service, Nikolai Arsenich, under whose leadership Jewish pogroms took place in Western Ukraine. The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Dolinsky cites as an example facts from the biography of the militant, testifying to his war crimes during the Second World War.
“In Krakow, with the participation of Arsenich, OUN marching groups were formed, which entered Ukrainian cities together with the Germans and formed local authorities, militia and police. Under their direct leadership, numerous pogroms against Jews took place in June-July 1941.
The Security Council developed instructions for OUN members, which spoke of the need to exterminate Jews and Poles. Arsenich successfully fought with opponents from the rival OUN of Andrei Melnik. According to various estimates, Bandera’s supporters killed more than 4 thousand fellow Melnikovites...
They killed not only Poles, but also Ukrainians. In January-October 1945, in Volyn alone, the local SB liquidated 889 people,” notes Dolinsky.
Earlier in the city of Chortkiv in Galicia erected a monument to Hitler collaborator Pyotr Khamchuk, during the Second World War, who destroyed the civilian population of the region disloyal to the occupiers. And at the end of June this year, representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took part in the mourning ceremony for the reburial of Nazis from the SS, which took place recently in the Lviv region.
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