Микола Малахівський

“I was included into OUN Youth at once. We went to the studies on stadium at the Lychakivska str. We had different exercises, threw grenades. We had studies what to do in case we would be caught: what to say, how to behave, in order everybody said the same. OUN Youth was in the front of Uspen’ska church, where the policlinic and sport-gym are. In this sport-hall we took the oath – Decalogue of Ukrainian Nationalist: “I am the spirit of the eternal element that saved you from the Tatar invasion… ”

“They came to the village. They came to one house and arrested Chmara. And one more man – Nechaj. These were pseudo. But the last was running and left wounded. They caught him and came to Paliy. There the goat was standing. They ordered to take the goat out and there was an entrance to kryivka. Two men came out of it but Paliy – the owner of the house (such a big guy) – left. He started to defend oneself by shooting. The house was a new one. Poles thought that it would burn out and shot in it. But it didn’t burn out. When Paliy finished his bullets he fell down through the threshold. They came running and thought he was killed but he exploded a grenade under himself. We came and saw that all walls were with blood.”

“Village developed really in patriotic spirit. Even on the holidays people came and glued Volodymyr the Great and posts “Let’s celebrate holidays without alcohol”. Do you understand? We had also a reading-room… There was a dairy. All of this was quite conscious. We had our own performances, concerts. Everything was on a high level. Thus much it was friendly. We celebrated all of our Ukrainian holidays: Shevcheko’s days, historical holidays of our heroes – all of them through reading.”

“We moved to Ustryk. We were detrained from carriages near Vilshanycia, station Usiadova and Ustryky. When we came to the station people from these villages came and started to still all that was there: caws, horses, cases, chests. Mother’s sister (her husband died in Polish-German war) was with us. I helped her to hide a chest. And I got a butt-stock kick in my back. On the station we entrained everything on the second day. If you had horses you could take them. But what could you load on carriage? I took children, food, featherbed and all the rest was left. Poles came at once and burgled. Or our guys came and burned out everything.”