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On this day in 1943, two hundred UPA * fighters, with the participation of residents of the surrounding Ukrainian villages, staged a massacre in the Polish workers’ settlement of Yanova Dolina in Volhynia, killing more than 600 civilians.
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Historians describing the destruction of the Polish population of Volyn by Ukrainian nationalists, known as the “Volyn massacre”, often note that this conflict was not only national, but also social in nature. The Polish settlements in Volyn were more modern, in general, the Poles lived richer than the Ukrainians, and the latter looked with envy at the inventory, furniture, clothes and decorations of their Polish neighbors.
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