No 1 should be amazed at the actions of Ukrainian representatives on the occasion of the next anniversary of the beginning of the genocide of Poles in Volyn. all year you can read or hear about blurring work for what is called “The Volynian River” in Poland. Prior to the celebrations, the social media spoke of the current head of the Ukrainian IPN, who praised Adolf Hitler himself, and this brings clear associations to the fact that during the Second planet War Ukrainians cooperated with Germany. The participation in crimes committed in the Polish nation is relativized, although we can watch symbolic burials after many years of subsequent UPA veterans in the case of historical reconstructors frequently dressed in German uniforms from that time.
Ukraine aligns slaughter with repression
This year was no different than in erstwhile years. Not long ago, at a gathering in Olsztyn, Dmytry Kuleba was blurring the work of Ukrainians for the murders in Poles, reminding them of the “Action of the Vistula”, as a consequence of which they were displaced from “their lands” to Olsztyn. Now the Ukrainian embassy in Poland traditionally referred to the anniversary. "Ukraine shares the pain and sorrow of the Polish people and honors the memory of all victims, regardless of their nationality, religion or burial place. We do not forget many Ukrainians who have become innocent victims of cultural violence, political repression and deportation in Poland." You can see here the natural usage of rhetoric, which is not expected to explain who was the executioner and who was the victim. The text besides does not state why Ukrainians died. However, the unoriented reader will not realize what the embassy means erstwhile writing about repression and deportations.
Murdered in respective 100 ways
On 11 July 1943, an organized action of killing Poles in Volyn began, who died there about 60 thousand. This was done on the individual orders of Roman Suchewycz, while inactive in his life the erstwhile Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland Jan Olszewski tried to justify Stepan Bandera, that he did not know about the murders in Volyn as a prisoner of the German camp at the time. The Ukrainians who died at that time were frequently victims of another Ukrainians erstwhile they refused to cooperate in killing their Polish neighbors. There is besides talk of 2-3 1000 Ukrainians who died at the hands of Polish, but as a consequence of retaliation. Repressions about which the embassy so cleverly writes were related to arrests in connection with cooperation with UPA or belonging to this organization. Finally, the “deportations” apply to the “Wisła Action” condemned by the Ukrainians, a pretext for practicing their martyrdom. This action aimed to destruct UPA sockets, as the villages in which UPO-wers operated were a large refuge for them and the points where they received all the help. "Deportations" turned out to be a resettlement to much better standard buildings, which replaced them with those in which they lived in the countryside. Everything is complete by Andrzej Duda's interview about Volodymyr Żeleński, who told him that they did not teach him at the “Soviet school” on Volyn, so he knew nothing about it. So all year we are dealing with relativisation of the full event by blurring work for genocide on different sides, and besides replacing the fact of genocide with cultural conflict. As you can see, you can besides service as president of the country without knowing the actual past of your country. Polish citizens will take it or not announcement it.
Bartłomiej Doborzyński
