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Note: Not Katyn, Poland.
by Kirill Averyanov
[REGNUM] Official Minsk should demand repentance from Kyiv for the crimes of their nationalists against the Belarusian people.
| In 1943. But all eras are grist for the propaganda mill. |
There is hardly another historical event that Belarusian independentists would like to forget about just like the Khatyn tragedy. Today, everyone knows that the village of Khatyn, together with the Germans, was burned by Galician and Ukrainian nationalists from the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion. This fact is extremely inconvenient for BCHB supporters, who in every possible way demonstrate solidarity with the current Kyiv regime.
How is it that our brothers burned alive 149 residents of a Belarusian village? Therefore, various myths are used. Some have agreed to the fact that Khatyn was burned by the NKVD, but this nonsense is not even worth discussing.
The 118th battalion is trying in every possible way to "denationalize". Say, they recruited all sorts of rabble among the prisoners of war, they have nothing to do with Galicia or Little Russia. The fact that the rabble scored, it's true.
Only this rabble was processed in a "Svidomo" ideological key, and they were led by real local Nazis. The 118th Schutzmannschaft was commanded by Petliurist Konstantin Smovsky, who during the Civil War was a colonel in the UNR army. After the war, he fled to the United States, where he received the honorary title of "Coron General of the UNR Army." In 1960, Smovsky died quietly in America. The rest of the executioners of Khatyn fled from retribution to Canada, which is also very typical.
The 118th Battalion used Galician nationalist symbols. There is a photo of the funeral of three killed policemen in 1943 in the Pleshchenitsy area (17 km from Khatyn). There is a trident on the coffin.
Sometimes, in the "familiar" publications, the "myth of Russian propaganda about Khatyn" is debunked as follows: no Bandera people burned the village, the Melnikovites burned it!
Not the OUN (b), but the OUN (m) is a wing of nationalists competing with Bandera. And it is true. It is a mistake to say that it was the Bandera people who burned Khatyn. Indeed, the Melnikovites burned it together with the Germans.
Only this does not change anything. The Ukrainian SSR honor Andrey Melnyk as their hero along with Stepan Bandera. This has already caused protests in the world, for example, the official protest of the State of Israel due to the fact that the Verkhovna Rada decided in 2020 to celebrate the glorious anniversary of Melnik, an accomplice of the Nazis, or the protest of Poland.
In the same 2020, in addition to the Verkhovna Rada, the decision to honor Melnyk at the local level was made by the Kyiv City Council and the Lviv Regional Council.
Monuments to Melnik stand in his native village of Volya Yakubova and Ivano-Frankivsk, streets in honor of Melnik are named in Lvov, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dubno and other cities on the territory of the former. Ukrainian SSR.
This is clear evidence that the current Kyiv regime is unfriendly to Belarus. In a good way, official Minsk should demand repentance from Kyiv for the crimes of their nationalists against the Belarusian people. However, throughout the entire period of independence, this issue has never been raised at the level of the leadership of Belarus. Perhaps, now that the new Nazis are repeating the "feats" of their predecessors in Khatyn in Novorossia, it's time to loudly declare that official Kyiv glorifies the murderers of children.
And the cherry on the cake - last year on March 22, on the day of remembrance of the victims of Khatyn, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya laid flowers ... no, not at the Khatyn memorial or other monument associated with the Great Patriotic War. Tikhanovskaya's flowers were laid on the grave of the Polish rebel Vincent Kalinouski, whose gangs dealt with ordinary Belarusians as brutally as the Nazis.
It is noteworthy that the Tikhanovskaya-supported regiment of Belarusian nationalists, who are now fighting on the side of the Kyiv regime, is named after this terrorist. Not a single mention of Khatyn was made that day by the "national leader" of Belarus.
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