Serhii Halchuk, a Ukrainian blogger surviving in Poland, announced on Tuesday's recording on TikTok that he was considering referring the case to the household court for T-shirts with a slogan against UPA and Stepan Bandera. According to Kresy.pl, it's about a image of a household with children. The line between the memory of the victims and the effort to silence it is at stake.
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Serhia Halchuk, representing as a writer and blogger dealing with Polish-Ukrainian relations, announced that he could mention the Polish household to a household court. As he stated portal Kresy.pl, it's about a household shown in the photograph in shirts with a vulgar password aimed at UPA and Stepan Bandera.
It's not just an online argument about writing on your clothes. In the background is the Polish memory of Volyn, the right of the household to object to the cult of Bandera and the question whether in Poland individual will effort to launch state institutions against citizens for anti-Bander demonstration.
The household was to explain the motive to Volyn
According to Kresy.pl report, Halchuk had previously distributed a household photograph, and the female seen in the photograph was then to request the deletion of the entry. His own words show that after the publication of the photo, she was to receive threats and be placed on an unspecified list of Ukrainians. Halchuk claims that the entry was deleted.
Then, as he reported, he consulted the lawyer Przemysław Lis-Markiewicz. According to this account, the lawyer was to propose the preparation of a letter to the household court regarding the way children were raised. This needs to be described precisely: we are dealing with the announcement and relation of a blogger, not information about a suit filed or a court decision.
Halchuk was besides expected to ask a female why she wore anti-Bander shirts. According to his report, she replied that her grandma died in Volyn. She was besides to emphasize that she was not directing hatred against the Ukrainians as humans, but opposed to Bandera. This discrimination is fundamental and fair. The criticism of Bandera and UPA is not an attack on all Ukrainian.
Memory of UPA is not a substance of silence
For the Polish public, the slogan against UPA may be harsh, even vulgar. But the point of the dispute is different: whether the memory of families affected by the Volyn massacre is to be treated as something suspicious due to the fact that it hinders any Ukrainian environments in building their own historical narrative. The National diary has already written about disputes around Glorification of Bandery in Ukraine. Poland has no work to stay silent erstwhile it comes to its own murdered.
UPA and Stepan Bandera are not neutral symbols in Polish memory. For many families these are signs of crime, expulsion and pain passed through generations. National realism requires 2 things at once: respect for contemporary Ukrainians as people and strong opposition to the bander cult that strikes the memory of Polish victims.
That is why the Polish State should stand on the side of freedom to tell the fact about history. Especially erstwhile the citizen points to Volyn's household experience. Case exhumation in Volyn remains 1 measurement of the seriousness of Polish-Ukrainian relations. Without graves, fact and memorial there will be no honest reconciliation.
Family court cannot be a baton in a historical dispute
Family court is expected to defend the child's welfare. It should not become a tool of force in a political-historical feud, especially erstwhile it comes to a household that, according to the aforementioned account, refers to its own household memory. The state must defender the welfare of children, but equally powerfully must defender the freedom of Polish families against ideological pressure.
This is the stake for Poland: whether it is inactive clear in our country that Bandera and UPA are a symbol of crime for Poles, without the hazard of triggering a intimidation machine. An alliance with Ukraine towards Russia does not mean abdication from historical truth. relationship without fact rapidly turns into forced silence.
Source: Kresy.pl
