“Right distant from the resignation, and not the deputy minister, but the full government with Tusk in the lead, due to the fact that it is simply a national betrayal”, said Przemysław Czarnek. This is simply a reaction to the words of Deputy Minister of discipline Andrzej Szeptycki, who compared UPA members to "unbreakable soldiers".
Przemysław Czarnek (PiS) demanded on Sunday resignation of Donald Tusk's government. The reason was the words of Deputy Minister of discipline Andrzej Szeptycki, who compared UPA members in a radio interview to "unbreakable soldiers".
- I'm sorry. Immediately to the resignation and not the deputy minister, but the full government with Tuski at the head, due to the fact that this is simply a national betrayal," said Czarnek in Nowy Targ.
According to PiS policy, the presence of Szeptycki in government is "a powerful scandal". He accused him of "telling people-killers in Volyn that they were something like Polish soldiers unbreakable" and stated that "this man should not be in the Polish government".
Szeptycki about "Ukrainian unbreakable soldiers"
On Friday, on TOK FM's radio, Szeptycki was asked, among others, about "what is so about this UPA, that Ukrainians cannot get free of it from their historical imaginarium".
SEE: The head of the MON with an appeal to Zelenski. "A actual relationship requires truth"
Deputy Head of the Ministry of Scienceand replied that "it was a formation that – regardless of what you said about the Volyn crime, but fought for Ukraine's independence, fought within this Ukrainian imaginarium primarily with the Soviets and it was specified a hopeless fight".
- I'm sorry. It was a small bit, with all the affirmative and negative connotations of the word, a small bit like Ukrainian Unbreakable Soldiers – added Szepcki.
Useful: An outrage over fresh decisions of the Ukrainian side is justified
On Sunday in tv Republic Head of the President's global Policy Office Marcin Przypocz referred, among others, to the decision of the president of Ukraine Zelenski Volodymyr from the end of May, which gave 1 of his country's armed forces the name of the UPA Heroes.
This event started the emergence of tensions on the Polish-Ukraine line.
The president's minister stressed that "the outrage on the fresh decisions of the Ukrainian side is absolutely justified, right" and he shares them. He pointed out that he himself uses the word "genocide" to describe the Volyn crime.
SEE: The president wants to choice up Zelensk's order. "Tusk stands on the side of justifying UPA glorification"
He then said that Donald Tusk's government is "one man who took the liberty of comparing the Ukrainian Insurgency Army, these bandits, murderers, to Polish unbreakable soldiers".
– I am talking about Mr Szeptycki," said the presidential minister. – What is this man inactive doing in the Polish government, after specified a speech? The next day he should either resign himself out of shame or be thrown out. And if Donald Tusk does not want to do so, then if Mr.Zgorzelski, Mr.Kosiniak defends Polish history, Polish truth, then they should urgently request from the minister and the Prime Minister to expel this man from the Polish government," said Przypocz. He added that this man "should not work in the Polish government".
The words of Szeptycki were besides commented by politicians of the ruling coalition. - I wouldn't compare. On the another hand, I know that Minister Szeptycki is an expert on the past of Ukraine and possibly he was just referring to historical connotations - he commented in an interview with TOK FM Marek Krawczyk from Poland 2050.
Alicja Łepkowska Gołas from the Civic Coalition, besides in a conversation with the station, she said: "The steadfast are the people who fought oppression, communism and communists, not the people who murdered Poles due to the fact that Poles did not respond to them and only later fought the Soviets. Therefore, I would now anticipate the Deputy Minister to learn more sense and weigh words and pietism.
Nawrocki wants to receive the Order of the White Eagle of Zelensk
Zelenski's decision to name 1 of the UPA Heroes was met with criticism of Polish politicians, besides the president, who announced for June 8 sitting of the Order of the White Eagle. He informed that he had proposed that 1 of the meeting's items should be to remove president Zelensk of the Order of the White Eagle.
Zelenski was awarded the Order of the White Eagle in April 2023 by then president Andrzej Duda "in designation of the distinguished merits in deepening friendly and comprehensive relations between Poland and Ukraine, for developing cooperation for democracy, peace and safety in Europe and integrity in defence of inalienable human rights".
On Friday and Saturday meetings with representatives of the government and the president (including Marcin Przydycz) were held by Kyrylo Budanow, head of the Ukrainian President's office.
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