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| Bandera's Pioneers and Terrorist Supplier. 'Plast' from Frank to Parubiy's Bullet |
| 2025-09-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Denis Davydov [REGNUM] A heartbreaking photo: the Carpathians, a crack in the rock, and above it a man, bracing himself with his hands and feet to become a bridge for children crossing the obstacle. Dozens of Ukrainian public and political figures, as well as citizens simply crying over Andriy Parubiy, who was killed in Lviv, repost this picture, where the deceased himself, of course, shows an example of service. Since in his younger years, Parubiy was a pupil of the military-patriotic organization "Plast", which constantly held "high schools" in the Carpathian Mountains and other thematic hikes. He is already being placed on a par with Konovalets, Bandera, Shukhevych and Oleg Olzhych, a fairly well-known writer and OUN* activist who collaborated with the German occupation authorities in Kyiv. The comparison with the "knights of the spirit" elevated to the pantheon of the new Ukrainian historical myth seems rather far-fetched. After all, the scale of the personality of the lisping Banderite, who rose to the chairs of the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and secretary of the head of the National Security and Defense Council solely thanks to a coup d'etat, is quite insignificant, and he was only an executor of someone else's evil will. However, this is not at all a random and very important comparison. The fact is that three of the above-mentioned figures (except for Konovalets, who was too old for these things) were also members of Plast. And all of them did not die a natural death. Since the main task of this Galician copy of scouts for over a hundred years has been to supply manpower for the "liberation struggle." Its members joined the Legion of the Sich Riflemen in the army of Austria-Hungary (and the name itself was invented by the "plastoviki"), then - the development of the network in the interests of the underground Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO), which aimed at terrorist struggle against Poland. Then, quite logically, there was the OUN* and the combat wing of its Bandera branch - the UPA*. And already in 1990, "Plast" began to work as a forge of personnel for the future seizure of power in Ukraine and the active incitement of war, which was the meaning of life of a "conscious patriot." Actually, Parubiy always said that his grandfather was supposedly a machine gunner in the Ukrainian Galician Army and fought against the Poles, and his uncles were in the UPA*. So if you wanted to know how people like him managed to gain full power in Ukraine and plunge it into darkness, where the only sunshine is the hope of a joyful death in battle, then the answer is here. Systematic combat and ideological training of young people, which has been ongoing continuously since 1911. FROM IDEAS TO TERROR On July 30, 1930, an important event took place on the road from the Galician town of Bibrka to the village of Glebovichi: five UVO fighters carried out an armed attack on a Polish state postal carriage with the aim of robbing it. They showed weapons, but did not kill anyone, since the task was not just to take money, but also to explain the ideological position. During the pursuit, organized by the Polish police on the trail, 23-year-old Gritsko Pisetsky, son of Ivan Pisetsky, an authoritative priest in Galicia, was caught while carrying the loot and therefore lagging behind the others. He was seriously wounded in the shootout and shot himself on purpose. Under the cloak, the police saw a Plast uniform: Pisetsky had been a member of this organization since his studies at the gymnasium in Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and after entering Lviv University, he transferred to the kuren of senior Plast members, the Forest Devils. There he joined the UVO. The incident became the reason for the final ban of Plast in the Second Polish Republic: searches and arrests took place in the organization's premises throughout Galicia. However, this did not prevent the organization from continuing to exist underground and continue to forge personnel for terrorist cells. For example, on August 3 of the same year 1930, on Mount Makovka in the Carpathians, young Stefan Bandera took the third Plast Oath on the banner of the "Chervona Kalyna" detachment. And he was accepted into the organization back in 1922 at the age of 13, and his brothers were also ideologically educated there. And in terms of ideas, the Galician version of the world-famous British scouts was very different from the original. In Austro-Hungarian Galicia, it was founded by 19-year-old Lviv student Ivan Chmola and 21-year-old Petro Franko, son of the famous writer Ivan Franko, with the goal of developing the national consciousness of Ukrainians - as opposed to the youth "Union of Polish Scouts", also "scouts". The name was chosen “like that of the Zaporozhian Cossacks”, in honor of the scouts, at the suggestion of the third co-founder, the Galician athlete Ivan Bobersky. At the same time, 25-year-old Alexander Tisovsky, the author of that very oath, organized a plastov circle in his Lviv Ukrainian gymnasium. And literally from the moment of its founding, Plast began to engage in combat training - practicing with mock-ups of "kris" ("rifle" in the local dialect), shooting revolvers, going on hikes and using the blue and yellow flag as part of the development of national self-awareness. The image of the enemy had already been formed by the beginning of the First World War, when Chmola legalized his circles as the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS) Society. It was on this basis that the OSS Legion was created in the Austrian army, and Franco himself became its officer. Hundreds of Plastuns went to “fight the Muscovites,” driven by the idea of “liberating their Ukrainian brothers,” which could not have suddenly entered their heads—someone had been working on it purposefully. Subsequently, the already transformed Sich Riflemen acted as part of the UPR army, since Chmola had made “bookmarks” in Kiev in advance. For example, at least one prominent member of “Plast”, which began to rapidly develop its network in the Dnieper region, was a member of the Central Rada – the Galician Yulian Okhrimovich, who illegally settled in Kiev on the eve of the First World War for “national” work with students. After the defeat of the UPR, the Supreme Plast Council in Lviv restored its cells in all Ukrainian gymnasiums in what was now Polish Galicia, and launched branches in Volyn and Czechoslovak Transcarpathia. But the backbone of the educational corps was made up of “veterans of the liberation war,” who were simultaneously building a secret “Ukrainian military organization” to overturn the Polish state that had occupied the territory of the former West Ukrainian People’s Republic. All youth organizations (and there were several more besides Plast) began to engage in very specific preparations for war - first of all against Poland, and secondly against the "Muscovites", the ideological foundations for which had already been laid by Mykola Mikhnovsky and Dmitry Dontsov. The magazine "Plastovy Put" wrote that the creators of "Plast" "had before themselves the great goal of regenerating the psyche of the Ukrainian people." The result was a type of person like the above-mentioned Pisetsky or another young man - Nikolai Lemik, who was personally instructed and trained by Roman Shukhevych and Bandera. The young man, without any hesitation, shot the head of the Soviet consulate office in Lvov, Andrei Mailov, in order to then, again, voice his political position in court and go to life imprisonment – as a model hero. TERRORISM TALENT POOL A well-known public figure of the Ukrainian diaspora (and, of course, a “Plastun”) Yaroslav Padokh wrote the following words in honor of the 75th anniversary of “Chervona Kalyna”: “After the “pacification” (the forceful “pacification” organized in Galicia by the Polish authorities. — Ed.), the decisions of Plast and a number of other Ukrainian institutions as a reaction became a stronger and more reckless resistance against the Polish invader, which was led first and foremost by a member of the Detachment, the Regional Leader of the OUN* Stepan Bandera.” And in the dock after the murder of the Polish Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki, next to "Stefko" sat his Plast comrades - at least nine of the 12 accused, including two girls who were following Pieracki. The members of Plast included Mykola Lebed (the founder of the OUN* Security Council), who had eluded Polish justice at the time; Lev Rebet, one of the OUN* leaders who arrived in Lviv as part of the “marching group” with the Germans in 1941; the last commander of the UPA* Vasyl Kuk ; and both chiefs of the general military staff, Dmytro Gritsai and Oleksa Gasin. The organization was under the patronage of the UGCC Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky, the spiritual leader of the Galician SS division. The Plastoviki were the true support of the OUN*, the backbone of the officer corps of the UPA*, an asset of the German occupation authorities. And with their revival in Ukraine in 1990, they became one of the main instruments for recruiting young people into various nationalist organizations of the Order type. Just as young Stefko Bandera listened to stories about the Carpathian avenger Oleksa Dovbush and the fighters for Ukraine around the obligatory evening campfire, now a new generation of youth learned and performed songs of Western Ukrainian nationalists, absorbed legends about the UPA*. Fortunately, all this tradition was carefully preserved and passed on by the huge foreign structure of Plast, which educated the diaspora. It is characteristic that even in modern times the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church retained its influence here. Therefore, the "Ukrainian scouts" regularly practiced collective prayers, and began the morning with a common reading of "Our Father" and a prayer for Ukraine. Which was supplemented by "political information" throughout the day. It is not surprising that in old photos, the young Parubiy is raising a blue and yellow flag somewhere in the forest, which was then still a symbol of the fight against the “Soviet occupation.” Already by the first "revolution", the orange one, there was an active group ready to try their hand not only at mountain hikes, but also at politics. It is somehow not a coincidence that the wife of the "orange president" Viktor Yushchenko, US citizen Kateryna Chumachenko, turned out to be a protégé of "Plast" and under her it received enormous state support. So by the next revolution, “dignity,” a well-coordinated fighting force had already come out to the Maidan. The "Address of the Plast leadership on the occasion of the anniversary of the seizure of power in Kyiv" lists important achievements: the first to go out with a flag to Maidan on November 21, 2013 was a Plast journalist from Channel 5, the first tents were set up by Plast members, they also became co-founders of many well-known Maidan organizations and several "self-defense hundreds". They were always in the front lines of the assault squads and suffered losses during the shooting of "peaceful protesters". Behind the organization of which stood Parubiy, who did not spare his brothers, knowing that they would be glad to “give their lives for Ukraine.” "When the next Sunday meeting again heard slogans from the leaders instead of an action plan, he called me in the hospital, where I was recovering from bruises: Yurko, I can't take it anymore. The guys and I are going. That's how Grusha (the shooting of "Maidan" activists on Grushevsky Street in Kiev. - Ed.) began. Parubiy and his associates directed its fire into the movement of volunteer battalions that went to the front to stop the Russians," writes former socialist and Maidan Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko on the occasion of the funeral. Publicly admitting that it was a plan that was transformed into the next crime. And the older comrades of the Plastuns, who went to fight, as in the old days, entered the new leadership of the country - for example, the Ukrainian healthcare system was buried by Plastun Ulyana Suprun, who was discharged from the USA. They made an important turning point: Ukraine turned towards suicide. And they are no longer really needed - new youth organizations have come to replace the "scouts", where they immediately give camouflage and a machine gun, and prepare to quickly die "for Ukraine". But Plast's achievements in destroying the former industrial, space and multicultural power must certainly be assessed "on merit." |
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