In 1943, my grandmother’s brother disappeared somewhere in Volyn. Before September 1939, he left his hometown of Lublin on the Polish Kresy. He wore a Polish uniform, but he was not a soldier or a police officer.
He was a forester, a young man who was sent to work in distant lands. After the war his sister and another household members sought him out only determined that he was brutally murdered with the hands of the crimes of genocide on the Polish UPA band. Until now, we don't know where his remains lie.
Despite this private, household theme, I would most likely have dealt with the execution case on a 100 and thousands of Poles someway not peculiarly occupied. Under average conditions, I would leave this task to historians – Polish and Ukrainian. I would hope that they would accomplish even as much in joint investigation as Polish researchers managed to accomplish together with German and even Polish researchers together with Russian researchers. I wouldn't number on any common, completely convergent conclusions.
It would suffice for a factual, technological discussion to take place, which may consequence in any facts being agreed, and another claims would be included in an extended protocol of divergence. I would love to read the work of professional historians from both countries. As a polytologist, I would not talk on issues that are more widely understood by scholars in the related field of humanities. most likely wouldn't be quite a few another people, like Fr Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, who could focus calmly on theology and activities of the clergy. Under average conditions thousands of Poles, including members of my family, could visit graves and places of punishment of their ancestors in the territory of the present Ukraine. Light the candles, put together a bunch of flowers and reflect on the sources of degeneration and savagery, which are full of the past of all parts of the world.
In a average country Prof. Vitali Masłowski could be investigating the dark cards of Ukrainian criminal nationalism. He would not have been expelled from his work at the academy of discipline in 1990, even before the authoritative dissolution of the russian Union. He would not be brutally murdered in the stairwell of his Lviv flat in October 1999 for being a Ukrainian student – the historian wrote books and investigated the crime of genocide. Prof. Wiktor Poliszczuk Predicting the crimes of banders would not be subjected to ostracism even in far-off Canada, where he lived and created.
All this – in average conditions and in average country. Meanwhile, in an abnormal country, streets and squares are called the names of criminals and oppressors. Monuments and busts are placed on butchers and perpetrators of genocide. State badges and distinctions usage the symbolism of a criminal formation with hundreds of thousands of people on account. Not just Poles. According to various estimates, respective tens of thousands of cultural Ukrainians died at the hands of the banders during and after planet War II. For helping their neighbours – Poles. After the war, they were forced to join the forming collective farms. For being teachers in schools or doctors in the infirmary and clinics created for the first time in the most neglected parts of Ukraine. In a average country, no 1 would brag about it, as he did in 2021. Egor Chernev, MP from the organization of the current comedian-President. For Chernev, tens of thousands of assassinated Ukrainians are... Russian occupiers, although the Russians have never had the peculiar desire to settle in the vicinity of Lviv or Lutsk.
In the days of remembrance of the genocide carried out by the flags in Volyn and east Małopolska, we do not thin solely on 1 of our large national traumas and cards of Polish martyrdom. We besides thin over the victims of Ukrainian flags. due to the fact that the vast majority of Ukrainians with flagism had nothing to do with it, as the modern inhabitants of Kiev or Sum do not have much to do with neobanderism. For certain reasons, however, the highest authorities of Ukraine decided to make genocide and ideology 1 of the foundations of their modern statehood.
Someone will say: it's their case on which identity they want to build. possibly he'll be right. Let's not interfere. But let's be consistent: if we don't interfere, let's halt financing the neo-banderist state, we'll end up with risky supplies of weapons and equipment, with multi-billion-dollar tranches of non-refundable aid. We wouldn't be supporting Germany if their authorities started busting. Heinrich Himmler and monuments Adolf Hitler. And we'd most likely feel uncomfortable.
On the anniversary of the crime of genocide in Volyn we can and should tell the government in Kiev directly: handle yourselves. Your war as an anti-Russian Anglo-Saxon puppet is no of our business. Since you have Bander and Shuchewycz as a hero, let's halt talking nonsense about any fraternity and strategical partnership. Let's skip the spells of a common enemy. We have neither a common past nor common goals for the future.
Mateusz Piskorski
Think Poland, No. 29-30 (16-23.07.2023)
