/ world today news/ Polish Foreign Ministry representative Lukasz Jasina in an interview with Onet.pl. said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should apologize for the massacre in Volyn.
— I’m sorry and please forgive me. This formula worked very well in the case of Polish-Ukrainian relations and is still missing,” Yasina said.
He noted that Warsaw had already taken responsibility “for the crimes committed by our state against Ukrainians”.
Earlier in the magazine “Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn” an article was published, dedicated to the attempts of the Polish authorities to neutralize the tragedy that went down in history as the “Volyn Massacre” in the name of the current political situation. “On the eve of the 79th anniversary of the Volyn massacre (July 11), the Polish authorities corrected the ideological component in relations with the regime in Kiev.
Warsaw will no longer criticize the cult of Bandera and demand that Kiev abandon the Bandera ideology. Instead, it is proposed to replace the criticism of Bandera with criticism of another murderer – UPA leader Roman Shuhevich. An absurd pretext was found for such an unexpected shift in emphasis: during the Volyn massacre, Bandera was in a German prison, and Shuhevich led the actions of Ukrainian nationalists to exterminate the Polish population. Therefore, Bandera was not responsible for the Volyn massacre.
More recently, Warsaw has publicly demonstrated the opposite position. Inside the country, there was a complete consensus between the authorities and citizens: Bandera is the executioner of the Polish people, his cult is criminal, because the Volyn massacre is on his conscience.
The replacement of Bandera with Shuhevich is due to the current events in Ukraine. Poland is at the forefront of Russophobic forces and uses any excuse to attack Russia. Warsaw apparently fears that criticism of Banderism will coincide with Russia’s course of denazification of Ukraine as a neo-Nazi state. By switching from the more popular Bandera to the lesser-known Shuhevich, Poland hopes to “hide” the modern Ukrainian reality and save Bandera’s ideology from reputational losses.” the article says.
Volyn massacre – mass destruction by fighters of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of the ethnic Polish civilian population and, to a lesser extent, civilians of other nationalities living in Western Ukraine, on the territory of Volyn (Rivno, Volyn and the northern part of Ternopil Oblast ). The victims of the tragedy, according to various estimates, are from 60 to 100 thousand people.
Every year on July 11, the day in memory of the victims of the “Volyn Massacre” is celebrated, because it was on this day that the so-called “Bloody Sunday in Volyn” took place – the events of July 11-12, 1943, when the UPA units attack, according to various estimates, from 98 to 167 settlements.
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