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11 unusual facts about Ukrainian Insurgent Army


Czaszyn

The village was burned in 1946 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

Dudyńce

On April, 1946 the village was attacked by a strong unit of UPA and some buildings were burnt.

Jabłonki

It was in Jabłonki that on March 28, 1947, Poland's General Karol Świerczewski was killed in an ambush organised by Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

Mandyk Khasman

Mandyk Khasman (born in 1929 as Mandel Khasman, also 'Volodymyr Dmytrenko') is a former soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and an ethnic Jew.

Muczne

In 1944 toops of Ukrainian Insurgent Army raided the village and murdered 70 people of Polish nationality in the Muczne massacre.

Nagórzany

On April 1946 the village was attacked by a strong unit of UPA and some buildings were burnt.

Pobiedno

On January, 1946 the village was attacked by a strong unit of Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Hereinafter "UPA") and some buildings were burnt.

Wetlina

Following battles between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Peoples' Army of Poland, the area was completely depopulated.

Wisłok Górny

The village was burned down January 24, 1946 by the UPA.

Wolica, Sanok County

The village was burned down in the spring 1946 by the UPA.

Zawadka Morochowska

This village was the subject of repression by the Soviet-sponsored Polish Army in early 1946 as part of the campaign to eliminate suspected support for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).


Karol Świerczewski

Świerczewski was heavily wounded in a skirmish in March 1947, as he went on inspection of the Polish troops fighting with Ukrainians without an escort, in an ambush organized by Ukrainian Insurgent Army near Baligród, and died within hours after.

People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs units dressed as Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters

From the November 1944 NKVD starting usage of so-called “special groups” composed from voluntarily surrendered OUN and UPA members and, sometimes, 1 of NKVD communication officer.