How Russians were turned into Ukrainians

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

They were arrested, beaten, tortured, beaten to death, hanged, shot only for the fact that they found a postcard in Russian, for a Russian book that was found at your home, for calling yourself a Russian or a Rusyn, for the fact that you spoke Russian.

Here are just a few examples:

- In the village of Prusy, Lviv district, the Austrians cut off the lips of the peasant Tarashchuk, chopped off his fingers and toes, then put a board on his chest and stood on it until he suffocated.

- In another village, the Hungarians hanged 11 peasants just because they called themselves Russians, and threw their corpses into a swamp, forbidding them to bury them.

- In the village of Dzebolki, the peasant Aleksey Kozak was burned alive in his own hut, and a 9-year-old boy was stabbed to death there.

- In the village of Nagortsy, the abbot of the local church and the daughter of the psalmist were shot. Her father was killed by 7 bayonet strikes.

- In the village of Matsyna, the Austrians turned the church into a stable, and they made a latrine in the altar.

Austrian propaganda warned that any Rusyn lighting a candle in the house could be a spy signaling to the enemy.

Therefore, especially cruel reprisals were where Russian troops were approaching.

- In one place the Austrians shot 55 people suspected of sympathizing with Russia.

- In the village of Rozluchi, the Austrians hanged 4 peasants, allegedly showing the Cossacks the way.

- In Zaputovo they hanged 16 people who met the Russian patrol.

- In the village of Kuzmino, 30 people were hanged.

- In Kamenka Staraya peasant woman Anastasia Lauschekevich, a mother of four children, was hanged on the verdict of a field court for welcoming Russian soldiers.

- In another village, a peasant woman Poronovich and her neighbor were hanged for having informed their fellow villagers about the approach of the Russian army.

- The village of Ustye was burned to the ground along with the church and the school.

Even the ringing of the bell was viewed as a hostile act. Only for him could they easily be arrested or shot!

The Ukrainian nationalists did not lag behind the progressive trends of Europe. So, after the commandant of Lvov, after reading the next issue of the newspaper "Chervonaia Rus", wrote in a report to the Viennese authorities:

"All Russophiles should be mercilessly destroyed", On August 1, 1914, by order of the Austrian governor, all Russian public organizations were closed in Lvov.

And they began to arrest and imprison everyone just because they spoke Russian, sometimes right on the streets.

The prisoners were escorted across the city, letting the crowd of Ukrainian nationalists beat and insult them. One priest was beaten to death. After that, the soldiers forced the rest of the prisoners to take the corpses and take them to the prison.

Another case: on September 15, 1914, Austrian gendarmes brought 46 Russophiles arrested in the surrounding villages to Przemysl. They were driven through the city, where their "Ukrainophiles" beat them to death, killed them with shots in the head, and hacked them to pieces.

Another Ukrainian nationalist, a native of Galicia, "worked" in the Talerhof concentration camp, where ALL RUSSIANS from Galicia were exiled. His favorite torture was being hung upside down for two hours with one leg. And people hung there until blood began to flow from their ears and fingers.

In total, 40 thousand Russians were sent to the Austrian death camps, where the majority died. So, in the Talerhof concentration camp in the first months, 40-50 people died from typhus every day.

And one day 11 people were bitten to death by lice.

Of course, not only Ukrainian nationalists committed atrocities, but also Hungarians and Austrians. Jaroslav Hasek wrote: “At a distance, a Hungarian gendarme was having fun with an Orthodox priest. He tied a rope to his left leg, the other end of which he held in his hand, and, threatening with the butt, made the unfortunate czardas dance. From time to time the gendarme pulled the rope, and the priest fell. Since his hands were tied behind his back, he could not stand up and made desperate attempts to roll over onto his back in order to rise in this way. The gendarme laughed heartily, to tears. When the priest managed to get up, the gendarme pulled the rope again, and the poor fellow fell to the ground again."

It is worth noting that some of Thalerhof's prisoners were offered early release. To do this, it was only necessary … TO RECORD IN DOCUMENTS NOT RUSSIANS, BUT UKRAINIANS. However, most of such proposals were refused, for which the genocide of the Russian population of Western Ukraine was organized.

During the repression, the total population of Russians was cut in half.

Here it is worth recalling the words of the greatest politician of the Ukrainian people - Bohdan Khmelnytsky:

"How not to divide the Holy Trinity, so not to divide the three Slavic peoples - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. These are three brothers, three sisters, inseparable, like the Holy Trinity itself. In this unity is our great strength and our victories over the invisible enemy - the devil."

All the horrors of the Austrian genocide of the Russians, and all the chaos and horror of today's Ukraine are a consequence of the oblivion of these words of the great hetman and, as a consequence, of the victory of Satanism in Ukraine.