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Revision as of 17:26, September 28, 2023
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::I see; makes sense, as the Canadian Liberal-Nazi scandal is big news currently. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 13:09, September 28, 2023 (EDT)
::I see; makes sense, as the Canadian Liberal-Nazi scandal is big news currently. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Thursday, 13:09, September 28, 2023 (EDT)
:::It's not going away anytime soon. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 13:14, September 28, 2023 (EDT)
:::It's not going away anytime soon. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 13:14, September 28, 2023 (EDT)
:Here's an opportunity to do real [[primary source]] research. [https://komb-a-ingwar.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_21.html Here's an extract {machine translated):]
{{quotebox-float|At school we had to sing songs of praise to our executioners, and the monthly wall newspapers that each class had to publish had to praise Father Stalin and the Communist Party to the skies.
In July 1941, the German army occupied Berezhany. We gladly welcomed the German soldiers. The people felt the thaw, knowing that there would no longer be that dreadful knock on the door in the middle of the night, and at least they would now be able to sleep peacefully.
Upon entering Berezhany, the Germans occupied the new gymnasium as an administrative building, and our classes were moved to the old traditional place - the second floor of the town hall.
A new "liberator" of the Ukrainian people, Fuhrer Hitler, reigned over the Berezhany land. Portraits of Hitler in a long overcoat with a raised kovnir wrapping around a formidable face with small mustaches artificially attached under a pointed nose, and with the inscription "Hitler the Liberator" hung in every class. The Führer immediately showed his plans for Ukraine by abolishing the provisional Ukrainian government in Lviv and imprisoning Ukrainian leaders in concentration camps.
A new wave of arrests followed. It was easier to oppose the new enemy because: a) he was easy to recognize, b) he spoke a foreign language, c) he did not impregnate our society with sexots in the way that a Muscovite did.
In the gymnasium, science took place in the national spirit with lectures on religion. We were able to talk freely among ourselves on various topics, including politics, without any fear. Now Professor Mykhailo Rebryk has become the strictest, who decided to bring us all up on perfections gentlemen, which was impossible to fulfill!
The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) organized its cells in the gymnasium and embraced many young people.
I was just 16 years old, and the next two years were the happiest years of my life. I did not imagine that what I experienced in those two years would give me love for my hometown so much that it would be enough for me for the rest of my life. Little did I know then that dreams of those two years, of the company of charming girls, of cheerfully cheerful friends, of fragrant evenings in the luxurious castle park and passages through the city would help me overcome the troubled times of the following years. That the memories of the Berezhany Gymnasium in the old town hall, with its professors and with its cheerful and loud students, will sustain my heart and soul in a foreign land in the decades to come.
The forty-third year has come. The German armies were retreating to the west. The thought of turning those beasts in human form with a red star on their foreheads became real. Time and events have told me that it is my generation's turn to follow in the footsteps of their predecessors. And it went for the sake of the idea of a united Ukraine. Our roads were different - because this was the fate of our stateless people. At the call of the OUN, many people joined the ranks of the UPA. Others, at the call of the Ukrainian Central Committee, volunteered for the Galicia Division. In two weeks, eighty thousand volunteers volunteered for the division, including many students of the Berezhany gymnasium. None of us asked what our reward would be, what our provision would be, or even what our tomorrow would be. We felt our duty to our native land - and left!
Many students of the Berezhany gymnasium died a heroic death in the ranks of the UPA, in the "Galicia" division. I don't want the reader to understand that my entire generation was ideologically motivated and spiritually conscious. "There are rotten ones in a bag of healthy apples." This will depend on what relationship there is between those two qualities of apples in the course of a given generation.
On the last day of the war, the Galicia Division broke contact with the CHA in Styria, Austria, and surrendered to the British Army.}}
: [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Give Peace a Chance!'']]</sup> 13:26, September 28, 2023 (EDT)