– 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. said the Minister of abroad Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kułęba during 1 of the debates of the political event Campus Polska.
Ukrainian politician tried to equal the slaughter of 150 1000 Poles (to this day we do not know how many truly died) by Ukrainians in the 1939 genocide in Volyn and east Małopolska with the alleged "Wisła" action, and even to throw work for the Volyn massacre on Poles themselves, who, as could be read between poems, were themselves guilty.
– If we started digging through past today, the quality of the conversation would be completely different and we could go deep into past and forget the bad things Poles did to Ukrainians and Ukrainians. – said Kuleba, they want to bring the discussion about Volyn to absurdity.
Given that the Polish Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski and the president of Warsaw Rafał Trzaskowski did not respond to the scandalous words of the Ukrainians my duty, as a Pole whose heart lies the double execution carried out in Poles in Volyn and east Małopolska (one of them was done between 1939 and 1947 by Ukrainians, and the another by 1947 and 2024 by Polish, Russian and Ukrainian politicians who usage the blood of Poles for their own dirty games) is to bounce the ball towards Kułęby and callback any facts about the action “Wisła”.
According to the latest research, after Stalin set the future borders of the Polish state, about 700 1000 Ukrainians lived behind Curzona Line. The displacements actually began after the agreement between PKWN and USSR was signed in September 1944, in which Stalin's people transported almost 500 1000 Ukrainians from east Poland to their country. This operation was discontinued by another “Great Hunger”, which ruled the USSR in 1946. Ukrainians saw “Soviet prosperity” and began to flee to Poland in bulk.
During this time, about 2,000 banners were present in Poland, carrying out further acts of panic against Poles. all month, more than 100 violent attacks on our countrymen from the Ukrainian Insurgency Army occurred. At the time, in the provinces of Rzeszow and Lublin, death was like a part of bread – Poles died all day on a immense scale.
At that time, UPA utilized many "tested methods" utilized in the genocide of Poles in Volyn and east Małopolska. The Ukrainian "mystery of possession" began again and was accompanied by more than 3 100 cruel ways to execution Poles. Worse: the usage of Poles continued to give Ukrainians "a sick satisfaction". Young women were raped and then cut off their breasts, ears, nose, eyes. Pregnant women were cut open their stomachs, and they pulled out an unborn kid who was trampled on the ground. Men were cut out on their foreheads with an eagle symbol, mouth was cut from both sides, and “Poland from sea to sea”.
Communists ruling Poland could not afford specified “incidents” in their territory. The actions of the flags on Polish lands were widely supported by Nikita Khrushchev and Alexander Korniczuk, 1 of Stalin's closest associates. All the time, they “molested” the russian dictator so that he would receive Poland from Włodawa, Chełm, Zamość, Przemyśl, Lesko, Sanok all the way to Nowy Sącz. panic carried out on Poles by CNS-UPA criminals was an excellent pretext for this.
Due to the fact that the communists in Poland did not want to lose specified a immense “zone of their own influences”, and the stewardship of human life was very easy for them, it was decided to solve the problem, i.e. to initiate the action “Wisła”. The immediate impulse to start the operation was the execution of russian General Karol Świerczewski who was present at the Bieszczady inspection on 28 March 1947.
– On 28 April 1947, 4 divisions of the CBW infantry and many independent military regiments were assigned to carry out the operation. The displaced population was transported by rail on the alleged "recovered ground", i.e. Lower Silesia, Lubuskie Voivodeship, Western Pomerania, Warmia and Mazury. During the ‘shipping’ of wagons, public safety officers conducted infiltration. On the basis of their discernment, a group of 3873 Ukrainians were identified. They were persons who were considered to be UPA collaborators. They were dominated by cripples, older people, and children, as the banders assumed that no punishment would fall on them. Therefore, they were eager to usage their “services” – emphasizes prof. Czesław Partacz. He adds that they were "stopped" in a transitional camp in Jaworzno. About 150 of them died there due to diseases, mediocre surviving conditions and “actions” taken by “keys”.
In the opinion of Prof. Parowicz, the shares “Wisła” cannot be called deportation. – In Polish, the word “deportation” has its own meaning and means: to drive to certain death from where there is no return, and the only way to reduce suffering is to rapidly die. Ukrainians were transported to western lands, partially managed by Poles, including refugees from the east, but not only. They went to worse farms, of course, due to the fact that they were not "take over" by previously arrived Poles – emphasizes the historian. At the same time, he points out that the biggest victims of resettlement were those who went to State Agricultural Real Estate, or later PGRs. The conditions of many people there took any possible of survival.
For many, however, resettlement proved to be a “great opportunity”. After they came to power, they received considerable support from the state. Anyone who proved that his farm in the east was burned could number on financial compensation from the Polish state. This was a large shock for Poles! On the alleged reclaimed lands, there were many cartoons who frequently ran from the banders in a proverbial “one shirt”. They didn't get any backup! The Ukrainians were granted immense sums of money, houses, economical buildings, etc.
Another "positive aspect" of the “Wisła” action was the ability of Ukrainians to educate a immense crowd of intelligence: judges, lawyers, police, military, teachers, etc. The consequence of these activities is “a powerful Ukrainian lobby in Poland”. Their actions are intended to win the failure of nearly 80 years ago. First of all, the Polish State should return its east lands to them and pay immense financial compensation.
The conclusion is simple: the Polish state should radically change its policy towards Ukraine. All you gotta do is stick to the old rule: what you do to me is to you! So far, we're constantly apologizing to them, we're constantly giving them everything, and they're making demands for us!
I remember how after the gathering of president Duda with president Poroshenko, erstwhile the agreement was signed on the transfer of EUR 1 billion by Poland to Ukraine, the Polish president gave Poroshence a card, on which a request was written for the return of respective Polish churches, including in Lviv, in Winnica. president Poroshenko willingly hugged the money sent, then replied that he could do nothing due to the fact that he had no specified power. That's no way to do politics!
You know what the worst part is? The “Wisła” action was, as I pointed out above, a ‘communist against communists’ operation. Installed in Poland by Stalin "red", they wanted to keep in their hands the largest area, and there was a threat of its disconnection to the alleged Ukrainian Republic of the USSR. It was the communists who supported the flags in post-war Poland! It was the communists who gave the UPA criminals the green light to execution Poles! It was the communists who decided that they had to respond by force and only waited for an excuse to usage that force. fewer people, and surely not the Ukrainian side, pay attention to these “details”.
Is it possible to presume work for the “Wisła” action? This operation has no uncertainty saved thousands of our people. Not much – 1 can hazard saying that without it Podkarpacie would not be within Poland today, only within 1 of the countries in the east. Let us not justify the performers of the “Wisła” action that they had the right to deal with Ukrainians in specified a way alternatively than another way, just due to the fact that Ukrainians utilized even more criminal methods. But let us remember – and I will repeat it like a mantra – that it was not Poland who made the final decision, but the communists did it!
We – Poles can admit to a mistake, we can hit our chest, we can apologize for the mistake if we feel remorse. In the case of the “Wisła” action, for years we have been fed propaganda that this is “our work”. Of course, there are those who will accuse us of all crime and wickedness, only to tickle our own ego, or by acting on a political-business order, but specified people and their fatherphobia are subject to separate reflections. But here the case is clear: the “Wisła” action is simply a communist action organized and carried out by people installed in Poland by Stalinist occupiers.
Was the Vistula action a mistake? any will say yes. Others will say no. Others say a small yes and a small no. I say: we had to act and we had to act. However, the communists did not mean to save the lives and wellness of Poles, but to keep a region of influence! The life and wellness of Poles is simply a side aspect of this operation.
On the another hand, we have the Volyn massacre, which was no mistake, no "conflict in the family", but carefully planned and conducted with surgical precision the genocide of Poles and Polishness! In addition to the murders, Polish towns were leveled, orchards were chopped down, churches were burned, wells were buried. There was no sign of Poles! And what do the Ukrainians now do? They prevent us from exhuming, they hinder access to archives, a monument commemorating victims of the genocide in Volyn they call “a memorial of hatred”, they feed cows in Polish cemeteries, and now specified a Kuleba pops up, says what he says, and the head of the Polish Ministry of abroad Affairs and the future president of Poland makes mines, as if they had gastric problems and... that's all.
What more can I say? I guess just the words of 1 of Jack Kaczmarski and Przemysław Gintrowski's works:
“Protect me, O Lord, from contempt
Protect me from hatred, God.”
Tomasz D. Kolanek
Dmytro Kułęba at Campus Polska Future talked about Volyn and Action “Wisła”. Scandalous words of the Ukrainian
