– Let's leave past to historians and build the future together – Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of abroad Affairs of Ukraine, tried to take the blame of his people for killing tens of thousands of Poles. During the gathering with Radosław Sikorski and Rafał Trzaskowski, the Ukrainian politician spoke about the unnecessary "burying in history" in his opinion, while he did not mention the incalculable genocide committed by Ukrainians in Poles.
The scandalous words of Kułęba were expressed during the Wednesday gathering of Campus Polska Future. The politician was asked about "difficult historical issues" between our countries. 1 of the participants asked the question erstwhile Poland would be able to exhume victims of the Volyn genocide, especially in the context of the immense support of Poland for Ukraine during the war with Russia.
Kuleba did not show adequate civilian courage to answer the question, and in return changed the subject, indicating that the Campus participants meet in Olsztyn, where the Ukrainian population was displaced in 1947 as part of the “Wisła” action. The work for the actions carried out by the russian authorities in Poland Ukraine tried to throw on Poles, pointing to the expected analogy with the savage genocide in Volyn.
– You know what Operation Wisła was, and you know that all these Ukrainians were forced out of Ukrainian territories to live in Olsztyn, among others. The bullet avoided the answer to the question.
Then he went further, saying, But I'm not talking about that. If we started digging through past today, the quality of the conversation would be completely different and we could go profoundly into past and forget the bad things Poles did to Ukrainians and Ukrainians.
After speaking these insolent words, he equally perversely turned to the question of exhumation, claiming that the subject was discussed with Minister Sikorski. – We have no problem continuing the exhumation. We have only specified a request to the government in Poland to besides commemorate Ukrainians. We want it to be bilateral – he said.
– And if our relation were to be dominated by emotion, we'd be in a place where Russia would win. There are provocations in the area of history, which is organized by Russia. So I think, let's leave past to historians, and let's build the future together. Let the future be for you – he added.
On 11 July 1943, Ukrainian nationalists attacked 150 Polish residents in Volyn. Between 1943 and 1945, about 100,000 Poles were killed in Volyn, Podol and in east Galicia by Ukrainian insurgent army troops and local Ukrainian population.
Volynsk crime is 1 of the most tragic episodes of planet War II and the destiny of Poles. Unlike the murders carried out by the German and russian occupiers, the genocide in Volyn was frequently committed by the neighbors of the victims, whose ancestors lived together with Poles the same villages and settlements for many decades. However, the Volyn massacre was not a spontaneous outbreak of hatred, but a consequence of the long-term impact of the racist ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, which aimed at creating independent, ethnically uniform Ukraine by killing and expelling Poles and representatives of another nationalities. This plan was attempted in September 1939, erstwhile the first murders in Poles and attacks on Polish courts occurred.
The perpetrators of the Volyn crime are the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – the faction of Stepan Bandera, subordinate to her Ukrainian Pows dancing Army and Ukrainian population participating in the murders of their Polish neighbours. OUN-UPA called its activities "anti-Polish action". This word concealed the intention of killing and expelling Poles, so that Ukraine would become a completely uniform country ethnically.
In turn, the “Wisła” action was carried out between April and the end of July 1947 by the puppet communist authorities subordinate to the dictatorship of Red Moscow. Its formal intent was to destruct the Ukrainian Insurgency Army and Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The pretext justifying the displacement of Ukrainian residents and the application of collective work to them was the shooting on 28 March 1947 of the Deputy Minister of National Defence General Karol Świerczewski in an ambush, organized by UPA. The operation included about 140 1000 people who were displaced to alleged recovered lands.
In mid-August, the Warsaw territory Court repealed the decision of the IPN prosecutor to discontinue the investigation of the “Wisła” action. He disagreed with the argument that the deportation of 140,000 Ukrainians and Lemkos carried out in 1947 was not a communist crime.
Source: PAP
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