Hrubieszów revolution
Mass killing of Ukrainian civilians in WWII / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hrubieszów revolution [1][2] (Polish: Rewolucja hrubieszowska; Ukrainian: Грубешівська революція) was a Polish-Ukrainian military conflict in the Chełm Land during the Second World War. In January and February 1944, the OUN-B and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) carried over to the Lublin region the anti-Polish action they had launched the previous year in Volhynia.[3] In response, Polish units of the Home Army and the Peasant Battalions carried out the so-called "Hrubieszów Revolution" in March and early April 1944, retaliatory actions against Ukrainian civilians.[4] This, in turn, led to the entry into the area of Ukrainian People's Self-Defense units, OUN-B units from Eastern Galicia, which resulted in the intensification of anti-Polish actions and the outbreak of a Polish-Ukrainian partisan war.[5]
Hrubieszów Revolution | |||||||
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Part of the Polish-Ukrainian ethnic conflict | |||||||
Polish partisans before the attack on Sahryń | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Home Army Peasant Battalions |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army SS Galizien | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Zenon Jachymek Stefan Kwaśniewski Stanisław Basaj | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Up to 2,000 Ukrainian civilians killed 500 Polish civilians killed |