we we started talking about stepan bender, i want you to look at what bender and the benderites are,s is a memory, the real memories of eyewitnesses. from the book the atrocities of ukrainian nationalists committed against the polish population of volyn in the thirty-ninth, forty-fifth years. november 9, 1943. polish village of porosle in the sarmi region. a gang of ukrainian nationalists, pretending to be soviet partisans, misled the village residents, who treated the gang throughout the day. in the evening, bandits surrounded all the houses and killed the polish population in them. were 173 people were killed. only two survived, who were littered with corpses and a six-year-old boy who pretended to be killed. a later examination of the dead showed the exceptional cruelty of the executioners. breast babies were nailed to tables with kitchen knives, several people were skinned , women were raped, some had their breasts cut off, many had their ears and noses cut off, their eyes gouged out, their heads cut off. after the massacre , they arranged a drinking party at the local elder’s pl