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Let's start with wikipedia entry:
The massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia (Polish: rzeź wołyńska, literally: Volhynian slaughter; Ukrainian: Волинська трагедія, Volyn tragedy), were carried out in German-occupied Poland by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or the UPA, with the support of parts of the local Ukrainian population against the Polish minority from 1943 to 1945.
The peak of the massacres took place in July and August 1943. Most of the victims were women and children. The UPA's actions resulted in between 50,000 and 100,000 deaths.

I wanted to give a lengthy explanation of the events here, but i don't think I'm qualified enough.
I believe in Ukraine it's taught the murders were not ethnic cleansings but more of fights between two armed forces, or retaliatory action against Poles.

As i see it, OUN - UPA forces conducted brutal and inhumane murders on civilians. They targeted their victims based on nationality - being Poles, or trying to help Poles. Their victims being mostly peasant families - sparing none, no elderly, no pregnancy, no child, toddlers and newborns. The other part of this being such heinous crime was way in which those people were killed. There's an compiled list of means of torturing and killing Poles by Ukrainian UPA ... i tried going through the list and i still couldn't make it till the end. I'll get there eventually as I'm trying to translate if whole, but below are examples of how Banderovites fought Poles:

WARNING - following paragraph are descriptions of extremely brutal acts of torture. Full list is over 300 entries.

Cutting women's breasts off and sprinkling wounds with salt.
Bayonet piercing of a pregnant woman's belly.
Tearing out veins, starting from groin, ending on feet.
Cutting open the belly of pregnant women and throwing broken glass into it.
Putting a glass bottle into vagina, and breaking it.
Putting a glass bottle into anus and breaking it.
Cutting the belly and pouring food (pol. osypki) for hungry pigs inside. Pigs then ripped out the food together with intestines and other entrails.
Driving nails through hands to nail them to the table, and through the feet to nail them to the floor.
Nailing the tongue of a small child to a table using a knife, and having the child hang on it
Suffocating a child by throwing various rags on top of them.
Throwing small children alive into deep wells.
Throwing children into the flames of a burning building.
Breaking a baby's head by picking them up by the feet, and hitting a wall or stove with them
Nailing a little child to the door using nails
Burying them alive to the ground up to their neck and then cutting their heads with a scythe
Ripping the torso in half by tying the victim to two trees bent together and then releasing them.
Setting fire to a victim previously drenched in kerosene.
Stabbing children with a knife as many times, as the victim had years.

The first time i went through the list i had to stop with "Cutting pregnant woman's belly, ripping fetus out nad sewing a live cat inside",
The second time i stopped with "Cutting a baby into pieces using a knife, then throwing the pieces around." ... there were depiction of children being impaled on wooden fences, children having their heads bashed on a wall by swinging them holding their feet, but the image of someone taking knife and cutting into piesces a little defenseless baby using a knife was just ... i can't even explain... And now, as I'm trying to translate this, i put in on pause after this:
Dragging the mother with her three children along the street, tied to a horse-drawn cart in such a way that one mother's leg is chained to the cart and the other mother's leg is tied with one leg of the eldest child, and the older child's other leg is tied to the younger child's leg, and the youngest child's leg is tied to the other leg of the younger child.


So this for me is OUN - UPA, those are Banderovites, those are the actions of heroes Ukrainian nationalists want to put monuments to and name streets after.
With that said, Ukraine lost 7 milion to Holodomor. I understand they went through a lot of hell themselves.
There were Ukrainians who warned their neighbors of upcoming UPA raids, there were those who sheltered, those who stood in defense and those who tended to the wounds of victims. And in the end, those who died from hands of Banderovites for opposing them. I believe, they should be remembered, they should have streets named after...

I think remembering this, is not to place blame on people currently living for actions of their grandfathers. It's about memory, as this is the minimum the victims deserve, for their suffering to be acknowledged. And as for those currently alive, to admit it was an evil act.