According to some authors, some villagers allegedly supporting the upcoming communist regime, which was an enemy of the National Armed Forces (NSZ) that it wanted to avoid and stop at all costs.

[1] Historian Grzegorz Motyka stated that before the II World War, the Communist Party of Poland had influence in the region.

[7][8] Tadeusz S. stated that members of the NSZ that died were killed in the fighting which followed after the genocide when the armies tried to remove the bunkers hidden in the village.

[2][3][7] Wnuk and Motyka also said that Szary changed the original plan and instead of murdering only some people, he destroyed the entire village, as he hoped to gain additional support from the local Polish population that had a strongly anti-Ukrainian sentiment.

[7][3] On 15 June 1953 the high court of the Polish People's Republic ruled that a unit of the NSZ under the leadership of Mieczysław Pazderski committed crimes against humanity in Wierzchowiny.