tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post7841987116345138523..comments2023-10-28T12:01:47.929+00:00Comments on Edward Lucas: KatynEdward Lucashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-26675337636083907702007-10-31T11:30:00.000+00:002007-10-31T11:30:00.000+00:00Hi PawelI certainly know that Polish experience wi...Hi Pawel<BR/><BR/>I certainly know that Polish experience with the UPA was extremely unpleasant. However the Ukrainian resistance to the Soviets is much more complicated than either you or I have described. But my point is that it would be a great subject for a film. Each country tends to remember its own partisan resistance more kindly than it does its neighbours--for example the Lithuanian partisans regarded the Armia Krajowa as just another occupying force and fought them hard in 1944, when of course in retrospect both sides should have been concentrating on something else!<BR/><BR/>regards<BR/><BR/>EdwardEdward Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24528000.post-16433753137652444092007-10-31T11:16:00.000+00:002007-10-31T11:16:00.000+00:00Edward. For someone who claims to be a veteran rep...Edward. For someone who claims to be a veteran reporter with 20 years of experience in Eastern Europe, you've just showed an amazing lack of knowledge about, what you've called the "forest brothers",especially the Ukrainians. The ukraininan bandits from Organistation of Ukrainian Nationalists, UPA and various other para military groups have become known not for their fight against Germans, since for most of the war they were actually collaborrating and supporting the nazi regime, nor for their battles against Russians, as those were virtually non existant, but for the genocide of Poles, unarmed peasants, priests, teachers, old, women and children alike. Giving those bandits any credit, and putting them in the same cathegory as polish or baltic underground is bordering on an insult.kanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03778953708747214528noreply@blogger.com