Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, commemorating Holocaust victims stated that present in Ukraine there are fighting troops referring to Nazi symbolism. In response, Ukrainian MFA spokesperson Heirhiy Tychyj, contrary to historical facts, argued that Ukraine has always fought Nazism, and the continuation of this opposition is today's fight with the Russian invader.
A spokesperson for the abroad Ministry of Ukraine Heorhiy Tychyj stated that the speech of the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fica on the Ukrainian military is contrary to the "level of trust and cooperation" between both countries. Fico said on Monday that troops are presently fighting Nazi markings in Ukraine.
According to the MFA spokesman, the Kiev authorities are disappointed by Fica's message in Ukrainian soldiers who defend their homeland and Europe against Russian invaders. "For Ukrainians to counter Russian aggression is simply a continuation of the past of our nation's opposition to totalitarian regimes in the last century. In the 20th century, the Ukrainian people suffered millions of losses in the fight against Nazism," Tychya recalled.
A typical of the Ministry of abroad Affairs besides recalled the past of the Holocaust in Ukraine, during which the Nazis exterminated about 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews, and over 2,600 Ukrainians are on the list of the Righteous among the planet Nations.
The words of Ukrainian politics, to put it mildly, are missing the truth. Western Ukraine saw opportunities for the existence of its own statehood in cooperation with the 3rd Reich. ‘We have come to the conclusion that, according to many Ukrainians, the General Government is only 1 of the many factors which destiny has chosen to bring back the large Ukraine to the Ukrainian people" – said Hans Frank, president of the General Government in 1940. Even after the outbreak of the German-Soviet War, the Western Ukrainian elites had hoped that Germany would change their policies over time, and advocated cooperation with the 3rd Reich.
This belief was based, among others, on the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, or at the highest of 80,000 volunteers, the 14th SS Grenadier Division (also known as Waffen "SS Galizien").
Ukrainian Nazis from Waffen SS “Galizen” massacred Polish and judaic population. Many of them had previously belonged to the Ukrainian police battalion "Nachtigal ̄, which carried out, among others, massacres of thousands of Jews in Lviv and 800 Poles in Huta Pieniacka village in the current Ukraine (28 February 1944). Soldiers of the formation participated in the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. These people, implementing the Nazi policy of extermination of the 3rd Reich's "enemies", believed that in this way they liberated their country from russian domination.
SS Formations, including the 14th Waffen SS-Galizen Division, (except SS-Reiterei), were recognized by the Nuremberg global Military Court as a criminal organization. On 23 September 2020, the Ukrainian ultimate Court ruled that the symbols of the SS Galicia Division are not related to Nazism and so cannot be banned in the country.
Historian prof. Grzegorz Motyka besides argues that the 20th – eternal totalitarianisms provided inspiration for Ukrainian criminals from the CNS-UPA. "The russian deportations of 1940–1941 and the planned extermination of Jews by the Germans showed nationalists that mass repression was technically possible. Moreover, the worldview of Ukrainian nationalists led them to conclude that brutal force is essential to build a strong state," he said.
It is no wonder that in 1943, erstwhile the chance arose, Ukrainian nationalists decided to put bloody intentions into practice, carrying out savage genocides of Poles in Volyn.
Source: PAP / jeste.pl / orka2.sejm.gov.pl
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