Talk:Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia/Archive 5

Edit war warning
If the edit warrring continues, I'll protect this article. Please discuss things on talk, not just edit war.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I expect no arguments for blanking and QS reinstating in article - simply group of editors tend to exploit the WP for own proposes-- Jo0doe (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You should prbably just block JoeDoe rather than protect the article - most of his edit history consists of edit warring on different topics related to Ukraine.Faustian (talk) 19:20, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * And most of edit warring initiated by same cooperative of editors. And all edit warring related to removal by cooperative of editors “undesired info” about Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – Bandera (OUN-B)fraction Nazi origin and collaboration, war crimes etc. – but not to UKRAINE as allegedly claimed above.


 * Untrue. Jo0doe (talk) has also been quite active in edit warring the Holodomor article: .  The real pattern behind Jo0doe (talk)'s disruptions is not "related to removal by cooperative of editors “undesired info” about Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists" (I, for example, have added much such undesirable info myself) but about attacking the most anti-Soviet historical topics in Ukraine. I do not know Jo0doe (talk)'s political beliefs, but I can speculate about them because his devotes his disruptions to going after the two topics that most divide Blue from Orange Ukraine - UPA and the Holodomor (just as an example, in reaction to Yushchenko stipulating that monuments to the Holodomor be built, politicians in places such as Crimea put up monuments devoted to the victims of UPA.) Faustian (talk) 13:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Cooperative of editor much more liked to pose OUN-B proponents or sponsored by OUN publications as RS for WP.

A perfect collections – isn’t:
 * Сивицький, М. Записки сірого волиняка Львів 1996
 * Українсько-польське протистояння у вересні 1939 року у тогочасній пресі та споинах очевидців / Українсько-польський конфліцт під час Другої світової війни. Львів, 2003(In Ukrainian) Dziuban
 * newspaper "Krakow News" for April 1940
 * Just in the second half of 1939 wrote H. I. Kuntz in his article "again in Lviv" printed in the "Berliner Berzenazeitung" the Poles murdered over 60,000 Ukrainians

While a “wrong history” removed without explanation
 * СПІЛЬНИЙ ВИСНОВОК УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ТА ПОЛЬСЬКИХ ІСТОРИКІВ ЗА ПІДСУМКАМИ ІХ-Х МІЖНАРОДНИХ НАУКОВИХ СЕМІНАРІВ (Варшава, 5-11 листопада 2001 р.)
 * Institute of Ukrainian History, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Chapter 5
 * http://www.memo.ru/HISTORY/POLAcy/g_1.htm

Simply because they not allow to perpetrate a hoax in WP for cooperative of editors.

As you’ve point out – no discussion intent exist – simply provocative messagesJo0doe (talk) 19:28, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Taking into account the recent edits - I can conlcude what affort were given to hoax the WP by distorting the facts and give a wrong emphasis to events -- Jo0doe (talk) 07:37, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * There is no "cooperative of editors." It's just you against everyone else.  Here is Jo0doe (talk)'s edit history: .  Everything that is not talking (in JoeDoe's case, talking means nasty arguments), is edit warring, typically massive reversions that are themselves reverting by one of many editors.  Since Jo0doe (talk) limits his disruptions to Ukrainian topics, most of the people who revert him seem to be Ukrainians.  But not exclusively - he has also engaged in revert warring with User:Narking as seen here: .  As for Jo0doe (talk) 's accusations of "hoaxing", he has also accused me of hoaxing because I provided the year 1972 instead of 1973 for a reference.


 * A good summary of his behavior is here: . Note that this was written back in March 2008, and the problem with this one particular editor Jo0doe (talk) continues.


 * The real question is - why is he allowed to continue being disruptive? One reason may be that a lot of administrators are unfamiliar with the content and prefer to stay away from the mountain of info.  But behind that smokescreen is the fact that Jo0doe (talk) engages in disruptive behavior.Faustian (talk) 13:20, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

So – just another “Austrian officer” case. So here article which reflected the OUN-B activities [Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ‎], [Ukrainian Insurgent Army ] [Proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, 1941] allegedly claimed as “Ukrainian topic” – not – it actually should be placed as Galician’s Fascist activities category – it’s may be for some extremists look like Ukrainian, but that is not true. As regards hoaxing – see a short list of such http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army/Archive_03#WP:NOHOAXES – most of them perpetrated by editor recently nominated me as “troll” and “clown”. All edit warring as spin around explained in War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora by J O H N - P A U L H I M K A OUN -B General Instruction adopted in 1941 “ Fights and activities during the war” stated “enemies to us are: moskali (Russians), Poles, Jews…” and thus them must be“… exterminated in fight, especially whom which protect regime: remove to their land, assassinate, predominantly intelligentsia… Jews assimilation is impossible.” [Massacres of Poles in Volhynia ‎], There exist a several documented cases when such redistributed arms to Poles self-defense units were confiscated by Nazi’s and such Polish settlements were immediately after exterminated by OUN/UPA. Some survived Poles found shelter near the Soviet partisan’s camps. [35] In second half of 1943 in some areas they together with polish self defense units conducted cooperative actions against UPA; in 1944 such actions reached a larger scale. [36]
 * Cooperative of editor would like to compose WP articles to match this “black spot” – see examples what they don’t like to see or distort to justify or downgrade the facts
 * UPA
 * [Proclamation of Ukrainian statehood, 1941]
 * Memorandum dated 8 May 1941, entitled “General Instructions for all Reich Commissioners in the Occupied Eastern Territories”.

In these instructions to his chief henchmen Rosenberg outlines the political aims and purposes of the attack. …. The Ukraine shall become an independent state in alliance with Germany


 * Apparently convinced that the group of Stetsko had the backing of the Germans Metropolitan Sheptitskyy wrote a pastoral letter in which he exhorted the people to support the newly proclaimed government “the scarifies which the final attainment of our goals require demand above all dutiful obedience to the just orders of the government which do not conflict with God’s law.” Moreover he declared:

We greet the victorious German Army as deliver from enemy. We render our obedient homage to the government which has been erected. We recognize Mr.Yaroslav Stetsko as Head of State Administration of the Ukraine. The pastoral letter was read over the radio by chaplain of Nachtigall Battalion Father Hryn’okh the same morning. It appeared to have removed any doubts which may have been lingering in the mind of most prominent Ukrainians in Lviv concerning the origin of the Stets’ko government. [12

Indeed it can’t be found at Ukrainian Diaspora source what OUN/UPA adopt a Hitler salute as official greetings
 * IV Окремі постанови 2.ОУН уживає свойого окремого організаціного прапору червоної та чорної краски.
 * 3.Організаційний привіт має форму піднесення випростованої правої руки в право-скіс вище висоти вершка голови. Обовязуючи слова повного привіту: «Слава Україні» - відповідь –«Героям слава». Допускається скороченн привіту – «Слава»- «Слава».

But WP is not Ukrainian Diaspora Online property – so cooperative effort to hoax WP by Blank Spots in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora should be limited Jo0doe (talk) 16:56, 27 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for bringing up Himka. Another example of your using him out of context.  Speaking of Ukrainian nationalist antisemitism, Himka concluded:


 * "Ukrainian nationalism incorporated little modern anti- Semitic ideology. (32) The main thrust of the Ukrainian struggle was directed against Russians and Poles; the Jews were merely adjunct. Ukrainian nationalism never developed the fully articulated anti-Semitism that existed in Polish, Russian, Hungarian or Romanian nationalisms. (33) Ukrainians and Ukrainian nationalists may have disliked Jews, but they did so on traditional or on real-political grounds; rarely would they demonize Jews or place them at the center of some conspiracy. None the less, in the era of nationalism anti-Semitic ideology was widespread in Eastern Europe, and certainly the Ukrainians were frequently exposed to it, even if they did not incorporate it into their own nationalist discourse. In some cases, anti- Semitism was a major component of the ideology of nationalist movements with which the Ukrainian national movement engaged in intense conflict, such as Polish National Democracy in Austrian Galicia and interwar Poland and the Russian Black Hundreds in tsarist Ukraine. In certain states within which the Ukrainians found themselves, anti-Semitism suffused the political culture (late imperial Austria, imperial Russia, interwar Poland, interwar Romania). This constant exposure to anti-Semitic ideology probably facilitated its acceptance when it was also espoused, in a more lethal form, by the German occupation authorities.


 * "...A remarkable example is the decision by the Bandera movement to infiltrate the Ukrainian police units set up by the Germans. Although the police units were at first largely recruited from the pre-existing police forces, volunteers were also accepted, especially after the Germans realized that the pre-existing police formations, particularly in the pre-1939 Soviet Ukraine, included a large number of Communist party members in their ranks. The Bandera movement, that is, the radical wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was intent on establishing a Ukrainian state and understood that it needed an armed force to achieve this goal. Participation in the police units would provide Ukrainian nationalists with some training and with arms. Indeed, the thousands of Ukrainian policemen who deserted in the fall of 1942 contributed immensely to the formation of the Bandera- dominated UPA. (37) Prior to that the Bandera movement had virtually taken over a police academy in Rivne, where the Banderites stockpiled weapons and taught recruits to prepare for "a war of liberation of Ukraine against Germany" until their activities were uncovered by the Germans in the spring of 1942. (38) The nationalists of the Bandera movement reckoned that as the front moved eastward, relatively few German forces would be left in Ukraine. At that point, the Ukrainian police could overwhelm the German civil administration ("If there were fifty policemen to five Germans, who would hold power then?"). (39)


 * Of course, infiltrating the Ukrainian police formations meant taking part in anti-Jewish actions. Apparently, this did not constitute an obstacle of conscience for the radical nationalists. In fact, taking part in some actions was probably useful, since weapons could be confiscated during ghetto clearings and added to the stockpile. (40) When the Germans discovered the stockpiles associated with the Rivne academy, the members of the Bandera movement denied that they were theirs and said they belonged to Jews. (41) According to the Germans, to finance their activities, the Banderites raised some of their contributions from Jews, whom they often blackmailed. (42) On the other hand, the Bandera movement provided some Jews with false papers. (43) The impression created by the German documentation is that the extreme Ukrainian nationalists were so indifferent to the fate of the Jews (44) that they would either kill them or help them, whichever was more appropriate to their political goals."


 * WP is not Jo0doe (talk) online property, you know. All your words are just a smokescreen for your one-man edit warring.Faustian (talk) 21:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Ukrainian nationalism incorporated little modern anti- Semitic ideology It's a articles about past not modern. Read carefully "Blank spot" article--Jo0doe (talk) 08:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you -

Tymothy Snyder vs. Original Archival Research
A classic example of article disruption by Jo0doe (talk). Here is the reversion:. Wikipedia is based on secondary sources. The article, referenced to secondary sources such as Timothy Snyder, states that: "During 1939-1941 1.450 million inhabitants were deported by the Soviet authorities, of whom 63.1% were Poles, and 7.4% were Jews.[6] Others escaped from the Soviet-occupied territories to the areas controlled by Germans. Several hundred thousand Poles died at the hands of Soviets, including Polish officers from Sovietannexed territories murdered by NKVD in the Katyn massacre, and others.[7] [8] The deportations and murders deprived the Poles of their community leaders."

Jo0doe (talk) apparently decided that the reliable secondary sources indicated that the Soviets were too brutal, so he tried to add archival data to contradict the conclusions of the secondary source : According to declassified NKVD data 309-321 thousands of Poland citizens were deported in 1940-41 from annexed by USSR Poland territory, of those 10864 was died by July 1, 1941. Amongst them non less then 80 thousands were Jews refugees. From captured and interned in 1939-40 130 242 of Polish Army military personnel 42 400 were released, approximately 43 thousands transferred to occupied by Germans territory, 15131 were executed in 1940. While according to Timothy Snyder, several hundred thousand Poles died at the hands of Soviets, including the Polish officers from Soviet occupied Poland murdered by NKVD in the Katyn massacre, and others.[7] [8].

So, we see Jo0doe (talk) using original research to try to discredit a reliable secondary source on an article page. This disuptive editor has beendoing such tricks on the UPA page and the Holodomor page for months, then engaging in low level revert wars to try to include his version. This has been going on for months. Because he has been allowed to continue, we see the pattern of his disruptions expanding into other articles such as this one. When will he finally be blocked? Any admins following this article?Faustian (talk) 14:08, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

He has been trying to do the same in the Russian wiki and Ukrainian wiki. The reaction to him there has been swift and strong. Here people are too nice to him. Bandurist (talk) 16:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I hope you've visit a ref on info my dear friends.--Jo0doe (talk) 14:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

WP:DE
Editors now try spoil the WP:Credibility by including deliberately in it propaganda originated from student work - see  and similar quality of other sources by cooperative of editor.--Jo0doe (talk) 14:30, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
 * УКРАЇНСЬКО-ПОЛЬСЬКЕ ПРОТИСТОЯННЯ У ВЕРЕСНІ 1939 РОКУ У ТОГОЧАСНІЙ ПРЕСІ ТА СПОМИНАХ ОЧЕВИДЦІВ

An interesting reading
Collaboration in Eastern Galicia: The Ukrainian police and the Holocaust Gabriel N. Finder; Alexander V. Prusin

East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 34, No. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 95–118 ISSN 1350-1674 (print); 1743-971X (online)

Some text would be useful for article. The Soviet occupation of eastern Galicia from September 1939 to June 1941 reinforced Ukrainian national ambitions in the region. Since Soviet rule spelled the demise of the despised Polish state, a '''considerable number of Ukrainians initially welcomed the Soviets and occupied higher levels in the Soviet administration'''.

Ukrainian collaboration purposefully enabled the redistribution of social capital and space in the region in an effort to establish a nationally homogenous Ukrainian state, a ‘Ukraine for Ukrainians’. A Ukrainian police force was a cornerstone of this policy

While Ukrainian police forces distinguished themselves in Lwow, they were active helpers of the Germans throughout eastern Galicia, in the countryside as well as in towns. The Ukrainian police was also deployed in the repression of the area’s Polish population. For example, on 1 November 1941 Ukrainian policemen in Stanislawow took part in a mass round-up of the Polish intelligentsia (and the city’s Jews). The Ukrainian police actively participated in round-ups of Poles for forced labour in Germany. In their marching songs Ukrainian policemen would sing ‘death to the Lakhs [Poles] and the Judeo-Moscovite commune.’59 The brevity of this essay does not permit us to discuss the role of Ukrainian police forces in the persecution of ethnic Poles, but in this regard we would like to make one observation. Within the context of the Ukrainian restructuring of western Ukraine (eastern Galicia and Volhynia), '''Poles constituted a significant threat to Ukrainian aspirations of hegemony in the region. Thus in Volhynia in March 1943 and then in Galicia in August of the same year the leadership of OUN-B initiated the forcible mass removal of the Polish population in which deserters from the Ukrainian police force in Volhynia played a conspicuous role.''' and esppecially that conclusion

Violence generated by war and escalating to genocide became the tool of Ukrainian nationalist dreams, laying the foundations for a prospective – and chimerical – Ukrainian state on the basis of conquest, subjugation and, ultimately, the annihilation of Ukraine’s principal enemies in eastern Ukraine – Jews and Poles. --Jo0doe (talk) 13:49, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Jo: You can get more pertenant information like this from the Flat Earth Society site here and discuss it on the forum here. They would appreciate your "scholarly" input and erudition. Bandurist (talk) 13:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Polish police under Soviet occupation
The article says Cases where Polish police collaborating with the NKVD handed over documentation regarding the activities of Ukrainian nationalists were common. What Polish police was allowed to act in Volhynia under Soviet occupation ? I'm interested in the original context of this information in the source as I expect this sentence is misplaced in the article. --Lysytalk 15:34, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * There was no Polish police in Volhynia under the Soviets. All Polish policemen were arrested as soon as the Red Army entered the area, and many of them perished in the Katyn Massacre. I have no idea why this untrue sentence is in the article. Tymek (talk) 21:53, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Please help out with proper references, so we can have that allegation fixed as soon as possible. Thanks in advance. --Poeticbent talk  17:49, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Recent Changes
The current version seems to changed repeatedly by a Polish user in a way that seems to deliberately cloud issues involving certain Polish actions. With respect to the book Timothy Snyder, The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-10586-X Google Books, Snyder states that Polish kapos murdered Bandera's brothers. He also stated that In the Chelm region, 394 Ukrainian community leaders were said to have been killed by the Poles on the grounds of Nazi collaboration. An editor unhappy with these facts places "Allegedly" before the first one and a "check" tag after the second, even though the second fact is referenced by the book and page number (it is incidentally in the first paragraph on that page). If we decide to do this kind of thing to facts we don't like, a Ukrainian editor with similar attitudes can just as easily add "alleged" in front of and "check" after any referenced fact about Ukrainian crimes. If a fact is referenced, please leave it alone.Faustian (talk) 11:37, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * You don’t get it, do you? What upsets me is NOT your source but your blanket reverts wiping out improvements I made, unrelated to the book by Snyder. I can see you didn’t notice reference I fixed earlier to Władysław Filar. You are NOT looking at what you’re doing, and that’s not good. – Going back to the English language. You cannot say that one version only (your version) is the “correct” one (in summaries to your revert war naturally), while in fact the next sentence clearly states that the allegations were DENIED by actual Auschwitz witnesses. I repeat, if the allegations were denied by some witnesses in the camp, than the Bandera brothers were only  ALLEGEDLY (English please) the victims of Polish kapos. Snyder is but one source, Devin Owen Pendas (which I provided) is another. --Poeticbent  talk  19:26, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The source indicated that Polish witnesses denied the involvement of Kral, not the involvement of Polish kapos in general, so based on that source one cannot place allegedly in front of what Snyder says. In another reliable source has something contrary to Polish kapo involvement, then of course allegedly (or some other way of stating that sources differ) would be appropriate.  But all that you have provided is a source stating that a t atrial, Polish witnesses denied the involvement of Kral.  So I am fixing it to reflect what the sources state.Faustian (talk) 20:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Sticking to what the source says
Please see:. Someone changed the article to state the 100 abandoned churches were converted, which is blatantly not what the source stated. Let's not let nationalism cloud one's edits.Faustian (talk) 23:57, 12 June 2009 (UTC)