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Polish-Ukrainian civil war
Part of World War II
Monument in memory of Polish citizens of Janowa Dolina, Volyn
Date 1942-45 Location Volhynia, Galicia, Lublin (Kholm region), all along the border
Belligerents
Pro Ukrainian forces UPA Local militias Armed peasants, SS Galizen in 1944	Pro Polish forces Armia Krajowa Polish self-defense groups; Polish soviet partisans, Polish Nazi collaborators/police
Commanders and leaders
Shukhevych
Strength
UPA = 20,000 est. in Volhynia ,[1]	Polish Soviet partisans = 5-7,000, 1,200 Poles in german police (synder, restructuring, 172)
Casualties and losses
Military dead: X Civilian dead: 20,000 est.	Military dead: X Civilian dead: 35,000 est.

The Polish–Ukrainian Civil War of 1943-47 was a conflict between the forces of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and Poles for the control over Eastern Galicia and Volhynia after the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1941. Polish-Ukrainian conflict, endless cycle of mutual reprisals http://books.google.ca/books?id=Q2mq5C1CjgcC&pg=PR18&dq=shumuk+ukrainian+polish+volhynia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CddbT4-ZEILh0QHH-9ngDw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=shumuk%20ukrainian%20polish%20volhynia&f=false xvii

motyka calls it polish-ukrainian conflict

" Though he was a Polish partisan, Lotnik made it clear that atrocities could be attributed equally to both sides, ethnic Ukrainian and ethnic Polish"

" We retaliated by attacking an even bigger Ukrainian village and . . . killed women and children. Some of [our men] were so filled with hatred after losing whole generations of their family in the Ukrainian attacks that they swore they would take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. . . . This was how the fighting escalated. Each time more people were killed, more houses burnt, more women raped."

The real tragedy, as Tim Snyder has shown so remarkably well, is that rather than putting a stop to such senseless carnage, the early postwar Polish regime instead made ethnic cleansing a central part of its Ukrainian policy.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/comment13.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20181030174010/https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/comment13.htm