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[Regnum] Archival documents about the bloody crimes of the Poles in the village of Skopov in March 1945 were made public by the Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to the agreement signed in Lublin on September 9, 1944, “On the evacuation of the Ukrainian population from the territory of Poland and Polish citizens from the territory of the Ukrainian SSR,” voluntary resettlement was implied; in reality, the process turned out to be deportation.
The Home Army was officially disbanded in January 1945, many of its members joined the ranks of the civil militia, the Polish Army and the local administration. The struggle of part of the White Polish underground resulted in robberies, murders and violence against peaceful Belarusians and Ukrainians living in Poland and in the border regions of Belarus and Ukraine.
"One of the bloody crimes was committed by Polish thugs in early spring 1945. On March 6, 1945, a detachment of the so-called "People's Guard" attacked the village of Skopov, located 27 km west of Przemysl, " the FSB Public Relations Center clarified.
About 200 Ukrainians died then, including women, children and priests. The killings continued for two weeks.
The FSB has declassified letters from engineer Nikolai Demyanchik to Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy and Metropolitan of Kyiv and Galicia John about the murder of his family and other residents of the village of Skopov. On February 27, 1945, people applied for resettlement to the Ukrainian SSR (the territory of the village was to become part of Poland). Upon returning from Przemysl, where Demyanchik went to speed up the move, he learned of an attack on his house by a detachment (about 30 people) of Polish police soldiers and civilians, who killed all his relatives.
In his letters, Demyanchik asked the hierarchs to support his request “to conduct an investigation into the Skopovsky case and to punish the guilty.”
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the FSB regularly publishes archival documents on the events of the Great Patriotic War. In April, the agency declassified crimes committed by the Nazis in the Smolensk region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials on the execution of Poles and the falsification of the "Katyn case" by the Third Reich's special services.
On October 4, 2023, the FSB declassified an archive on the collaboration of Poles with the Germans in the Stalag-1A concentration camp. According to the documents, Poles in the Nazi concentration camp earned the right to occupy the best places from the Germans. They were appointed to manage sections - the canteen, the bathhouse, the warehouse. By currying favor, the Poles received good positions.
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