Today in Olsztyn, Kętrzyn and Giżyck are held Regional Shevchenkov Days, commemorating the Ukrainian witch, Taras Shevchenko. This man glorified the killing of Poles, becoming a god to the people who carried out the Volyn massacre.
Warmia-Masurian honors Ukrainian chauvinist. What is especially curiosal, behind the ceremonies stands the Warmia-Mazury provincial office. The voivodship supports the task and made the building of the provincial office available for celebration. ‘On Saturday (22 March), attractions in Kętrzyn will begin in the cinema “Star” at 11 p.m. and in the Warmia-Masurian Provincial Office in Olsztyn (room 52) at 17′′– reads the article olsztyn.com.pl.
Let us remind: Shevchenko's poem "Hajdamacy", which tells about the human slaughter, is not only considered as an anti-Polish, anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish work, but besides profoundly amoral and pathological.
Anti-Polish themes in Shevchenko's poesy were utilized by Ukrainian chauvinists to mobilise blacks against Poles in the days of genocide in Volyn and east Małopolska. During the war, Polish national communities shaken by the scale of the CNS-UPA crime wrote directly: “On the “Hajdamaks” Shevchenko this nation was raised – he is raised by clergy as criminals and rezuns. Through execution and slaughter they wanted to go to independence.”
Shevchenko published his poem "Hajdamacy" in 1841. The poet had a deep-rooted sympathy for the hajdamacs, for in his eyes they were avengers of human harm. In 1768 an uprising broke out against the Polish and judaic population and the Roman Catholic and Unity clergy. The Uprising was headed by the Cossack Maxim Żeleźniak and the centurion of the Humane Regiment of Ivan Gont.
The number of victims of the murders is estimated to be up to 200,000 and the apogee of these crimes was a slaughter in Humania where about 20,000 susceptible civilians died. The feature of the hajdamavika was the ubiquitous anarchy, a revenge-based movement that smoked looting, murdering and raping along the way. Cruelty in Humanity exceeded all limits, victims were tied to a stake, beaten, stabbed with pixies to finish with a knife or a firearm. The women were raped, the pregnant were cut open by their stomachs, and the children were brought triumphantly up on the peaks, not letting the infants who pushed into the well.
Some Ukrainian elites and historians see the birth of the modern Ukrainian nation on a can of Hajdamatic murders, rapes, human misfortunes, burnt cities and villages.
The images of the cruelty made by the hajdamaks embedded in the cant of the poem Taras Shevchenko scare, alarm and hit the Polish reader. The “Hajdamaks” subject is peculiarly shocking, with respect to the execution of Ivan Gonta on his own children, only due to the fact that they were baptized after Catholic.
The poet shows in the part that even the top crimes can be committed in defence of Ukraine, due to the fact that Ukraine is the large love of all Ukrainian. On this poetry, clearly anti-Polish, Ukrainian children, besides in Poland, learn social attitudes. The works of Taras Shevchenko show contempt for Poles. The poem “Hajdamacy” shows the peaks of this contempt. He calls for crimes on the Polish population and gives worship to criminals. Ukrainian environments in Poland present the poet as a large friend of the Polish people and mention to the frail poem “To Poles”.
You can clearly see the similarities of the tremendous beastlyness and killing of people that took place in the Volyn massacre and the human slaughter. It was Taras Shevchenko, heroizing Gonta and Żeleźniak, who paved the way for Bandera and Szuchewych.
Here are any passages from the “Hajdamaks”:
