UKRAINIANS call it a tragedy, for Poles it was a massacre. Between February 1943 and February 1944, units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army killed up to 100,000 Poles in Volyn and eastern Galicia, former Polish territories now in western Ukraine. The butchery reached its apogee in July, with as many as 20,000, including women, children and the elderly, murdered. Around 20,000 Ukrainians also died at the hands of Poles or Ukrainians who saw them as too close to the hated occupiers.
That's how UPA-OUN fought - by butchering women, children and the elderly.
The very same kind of mentality rules Ukraine today.
And Svoboda worships these guys.
Mind you, I am no fan of Putin or Russia, and I want a Democratic Free Ukraine.
But their leadership sucks.