Let us know how it goes.
I’m sure I have “safe” pine trees within walking distance.
I just don’ trust myself to identify them correctly.
My daily execution post:
1953: Dmytro Bilinchuk, Company 67 of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
ExecutedToday.com ^ | June 24, 2008 | Headsman
Posted on 6/24/2021, 9:14:29 AM by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1953, a guerrilla with the nom de guerre “Khmara” was shot in Kiev’s Lukianivka Prison for his involvement in a still-controversial resistance movement.
History is lived forward but understood backward. Therein lies the ambiguity of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a nationalist organization that operated in Galicia and environs after the Nazi invasion and persisted several years afterwards.
At its height, the UPA is said to have had up to 100,000 members, famously operating out of subterranean forest bunkers. This day’s victim was the captain of one of its companies; there is very little about him available online in English — principally his death date — but Ukrainian sites add the folklorish but poignant detail of his supposed adoption of an orphaned bear cub.
But about his organization, the name alone is sufficient to invite the most acrimonious debate:* were these partisans Nazi collaborators? Ukrainian patriots? Both?
Ukrainian nationalists, under the leadership of a man who had abandoned socialism for a fascist national ideology (everyone was doing it), entered the World War II era having conspicuously failed to grasp independence in a period when nationhood was being handed out like candy to small European states....
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3970558/posts?page=2#2
Maybe there is something interesting here that sheds light on some previous connections made between the cabal and Ukraine and or the NAZI diaspora. I don’t time in the next few days to see. Still catching up on post trip stuff.
I will. White Pines are very distinctive. They have a softer bluish green color than yellow pines. Yellow pines are the other main pine we have here. They are farm grown for wood and for paper mills. The White Pines stand out from them when in a group. We have 14 acres of pines and hardwood so I need to get out and find some.