On the anniversary of “bloody Sunday”, which is the culminating minute of the Volynian Reich – the Łódź patriotic communities centered around the Club im. Roman Dmowski, the Polish thought Club in Łódź and the Confederation of the Polish Crown paid homage to the bestially murdered and honored their memory. The gathering took place at 72 Rzgowska Street in Łódź, close the mural commemorating this unprecedented act of genocide.
Opening the gathering of the president of the Roman Dmowski Club Kamil Klimczak stressed that many people and the environment are disturbed by the memory of Volyn and that public media frequently usage Ukrainian narrative. The consequence of the war hysteria that began last February is the dedication of memory to victims of Volyn genocide in the name of immediate political interests. Kamil Klimczak pointed out that there could be no reconciliation and honest Polish-Ukrainian relations without the fact and condemnation of perpetrators of crimes by Ukrainian authorities. Unfortunately, the decision to refuse the exhumation of the victims of the Volhynia Rzeża by Ukraine excluded herself from a group of civilized countries. During the meeting, the erstwhile MP and Deputy Minister of Education besides spoke Mirosław Orzechowski, who protested against linking the issue of war in Ukraine to the commemoration of the Volyn genocide. In addition, col. Jan Waliszewski from the Roman Dmowski Club read the call on the 80th anniversary of the “bloody Sunday” in Volyn.
Michał Radzikowski
Addresses on the 80th anniversary of "Blood Sunday"
On the 80th anniversary of “bloody Sunday” on 11 July 1943, which is the apogee of genocide carried out by Ukrainians on the Polish population surviving in Volyn and east Małopolska, we pay tribute to the murdered and environment them with prayer. We anticipate the Polish government and parliament to make real efforts to enforce Ukrainian consent for the exhumations of the murdered and to supply them with a Christian funeral. We are opposed to false reconciliation in conditions where there is no confession from the Ukrainian side and the glories of the Nationalists from the OUN-UPA are ongoing at the head of Stefan Bandera and Roman Szuchewych.
The Ukrainian State as its historical identity adopts the heritage of totalitarian ideology, charged with genocide and clearly anti-Polish. Under the existing conditions, political, military and economical assistance of the Polish State to Ukraine should be conditional on the approval of the Ukrainian authorities to exhume and bury victims of genocide, indicate the guilty and halt glorification of flagism. After 80 years of “bloody Sunday” memory of the victims of Ukrainian nationalism is the central point of Polish historical memory. With outrage, we find that the most persistent activists of border organizations, demanding the fact about genocide in Volyn and east Małopolska, are subjected to harassment and repression. Polish east policy should represent the Polish right of state, to which it is present to guarantee that Ukrainian statehood is not built on anti-Polish ideology. No sense of possible threat by the Russian State justifies the irrational disregard by the government of the facts described.
We are convinced that the consistent blocking by the Ukrainian side of the exhumations of the murdered will proceed as long as the last witnesses of genocide from the Polish side and the last perpetrators of the murders that could be brought to court. The eventual consequence will be the inability to paper crime scenes and the actual removal of blame from the perpetrators of genocide. That can't be allowed!
We will remember the victims of Ukrainian nationalists in the next generations.
Jan Waliszewski - Club them. Roman Dmowski, National Action,
Kamil Klimczak – Roman Dmowski Club,
Michał Radzikowski – Polish thought Club,
Radosław Kędzia – Confederation of the Polish Crown,
Martin Frost – Confederation of the Polish Crown,
Józef Struszczyk – Confederation of the Polish Crown,
Mirosław Orzechowski – St. Wojciech Catholic Club,
Jan Szałowski – independent publicist,
Tadeusz Stefanowski.
Boat, 10.07.2023.
