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Banderite Ukraine – a Headache for Poland
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Banderite Ukraine – a Headache for Poland
November 19, 2016

Poland’s National Independence Day, celebrated on 11 November, has caused the Ukrainian authorities yet more grief. The date itself commemorates the anniversary of the restoration of Poland’s sovereignty in 1918, marked by the armed conflict that took place between Polish troops and forces on the territory of Galicia in the West Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR). Large-scale fighting continued from November 1918 through to July 1919 and ended with the complete defeat of the ZUNR.

Who Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on the Poles?
July 5, 2016

Every July Poland is rocked by internal debates about Ukraine’s historical responsibility for the 1943 Volhynia massacre. And 2016 was no exception. The current ruling party is Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party (PiS), which took power largely based on its promise to raise the topic, during its negotiations with Kiev, of the massacre of the Polish population of Volhynia at the hands of the butchers from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists-Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA)…

Who Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on the Poles?
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Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia
History
Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia
June 1, 2015

Poland is suffering political amnesia. The condition gets acute any time one mentions the mass crimes committed against Polish nationals. There is a plethora of examples to prove the case. The Volyn massacre is the most illustrative one. Ukrainian nationalists brutally tortured and killed dozens of thousands of old men, women and children. For all that, the Polish government supports the successors of Stepan Bandera who have seized power in Ukraine…

Heroizing UPA: Polish Government against Its Own People
October 31, 2014

On October 14, Petro Poroshenko signed a decree proclaiming October 14 to be the day of celebrating Day of Defender of Ukraine instead of the post-Soviet analogous holiday celebrated on February 23. This day the Ukrainian neo-Nazi traditionally march with torches to mark the anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. The decision sparked a wave of indignation in Poland. Protests hit the streets, the demonstrators picketed the Ukraine’s diplomatic offices demanding to stop heroization of OUN-UPA that is responsible for killing thousands of Poles during WWII. Protesters marched in Przemyśl, Krakow, Wroclaw and Warsaw under the slogan «Lasting Shame to OUN – UPA Murderers from SS Division Galicia»…

Heroizing UPA: Polish Government against Its Own People
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The Volynia Massacre in the Light of the Politics of Memory (II)
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The Volynia Massacre in the Light of the Politics of Memory (II)
July 11, 2013

On the 65th anniversary of the Volynia massacre, Polish authorities rejected a draft resolution in the Sejm which accused the OUN/UPA of the genocide of Poles. Something similar is planned for the 70th anniversary on July 11… «It is difficult to justify the shameful acquiescence with which some in Poland are renouncing the truth, and the part of the elite which shapes public opinion reacts hysterically to any reminder of the OUN or the use of the most appropriate word in this case, 'genocide'», writes the central Polish publication Rzeczpospolita… By agreeing to the falsification of history and consigning the Volynia tragedy to oblivion, the Poles are committing an act which is doubly worthy of the harshest censure. It is a disgrace, because a crime demands truthful illumination, and reconciliation is worthless if it is based on falsehood»…

The Volynia Tragedy: Why It Is «Hard to Believe the Poles..» (I)
July 10, 2013

On June 20, after two months of discussion, the Polish Senate passed a resolution accusing the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of «ethnic cleansings with signs of genocide» which took place in 1943 in Volynia… However, the ruling Civil Platform party intends to strike this definition from the text. To put it simply, Warsaw is trying to cover things up and twist historical truth out of political expediency… The truth is, as the «Rzeczpospolita» acknowledges, that «out of the numerous crimes committed against Poles in the 20th century, which was a century of genocide, this one is special in that it is perhaps the only one which the Poles are voluntarily erasing from their memories… It is hard to believe the Poles when they state that on the issue of Katynia they are interested in the truth and not politics when at the same time in their relations with Ukraine they renounce the truth in the name of politics».

The Volynia Tragedy: Why It Is <i>«Hard to Believe the Poles..» </i> (I)
History