Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Life in German Occupied Poland - The General Government (1939 - 1945)" video.

  1. I just want to point out that the "oppression" of Ukrainians by the Poles is a myth created by Ukrainians that want to justify genocide of the Poles that started in full swing in 1943. These "evil oppressors" made sure that every Ukrainian child goes to school and not only learns Polish but also Ukrainian - together with every Polish child in the same school (i.e. everyone would be bilingual - not that both languages were that different). Many Poles were killed while evacuating west - they were killed for simple reason - to take their possessions.
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  2.  @HistoryHustle  I do not really consider things such as searches for weapons in houses after a police station was blown up as "oppression". An actual example of "oppression" was introduction of law and order. Ukrainian complained he was no longer free to go and take neighbors stuff when he needed it (!) or go to the forest and get some wood he need (!) his "freedoms" were curtailed. Ukrainians, when they want to, are indistinguishable from Poles - same thing is in today's Poland where there is up to around a million of them coming to work. It is difficult to be oppressive against these that look exactly like you. None of the complaints to league of nations regarding "oppression" were validated. Poles oppressed Jews in the last few years before WWII - a part of a wave of anti-semitizm, but nothing like that occurred to Ukrainians. I know it is hard to imagine how something like this could have occurred without a clear defined trigger. However, there are known cases of Ukrainian neighbors coming to their Polish neighbors telling them they are safe and not to move out as they were always good to their Ukrainian friends. So why would anything be done to them? Few nights later they were killed. We are talking here about cases when you let them use your horse or farm equipment free of charge, helping out and later same people coming in to kill you and your family. The actual trigger was simple yet hard to believe for anyone from the west as they simply don't understand the mentality of these people - it was theft. They simply were jealous that their neighbor had more. Not more through privilege but hard work. This is why they even stopped evacuation trains and killed people running away with their belongings.
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