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Polish President Bronisław Maria Komorowski ruled out any further “historic dialogue” with the Ukraine following its glorification of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as fighters for independence. Komorowski condemned the Ukrainian Rada’s recent recognition of the UPA as fighters for independence, telling TVN24 news channel, “There could be no reconciliation between Poland and the Ukraine without a dialogue. We have a lot of work ahead in [setting] our relations with the Ukraine”. President Komorowski noted that the misfortune of the recently adopted law is that it prevents any further historic dialogue between the two countries. However, he added that communication between the two countries isn’t over, and that both sides should search for a positive solution to the existing tension in relations.
On 9 April, the Rada passed a “Law on the Status and Memory of the Participants in the Struggle for Independence in the 20th Century”, recognising ultranationalist groups like the UPA and Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) as freedom fighters. The above term also includes anyone who fought for Ukraine’s independence between November 1917 and 24 August 1991, as part of formal, informal, underground, military, or guerrilla groups. The move came several hours after Komorowski’s visit to Ukraine and his call for reconciliation between the Polish and Ukrainian people, following their difficult and complex common history. Komorowski then expressed hope that old disputes and quarrels “won’t get in the way in the path to good dialogue between the two countries and peoples”. Over the past decade, attempts by Ukrainian historians to rehabilitate the UPA strained Ukrainian-Polish relations. Polish historians blame the killing of between 100,000 and 130,000 Polish civilians and 5,000-10,000 Ukrainian civilians in Volynia and Eastern Galicia on the UPA, claims which Ukrainian historians have downplayed or denied outright.
23 April 2015
Sputnik International
http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150423/1021261030.html
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Editor:
The UPA did murder thousands… partly at the behest of the Nazis, partly at the behest of the Americans, and partly on their own nickel. Reflect on this… S A Bandera was a convicted murderer… he’s GOD to all the Galician Uniate nationalists. Need I say more?
BMD
10 July 2016. People Without Honour…
Tags: genocide, history, Kresy, massacre, Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN, Poland, Polish history, political commentary, politics, Ukraine, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Ukrainian nationalism, ukrainian nationalists, UPA, war crimes
Banderovtsy: People Without Honour. Remember the Calamity (of 1944).
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The above is a poster on a hoarding in Poland. It recalls the genocidal massacre of ethnic Poles by Galician Uniate nationalists during the VOV in the Kresy. The Uniate extremists killed people simply for being Polish… nothing else mattered to them. They also killed Belorussians, Russians, Roma, Jews, Rusins, and even Galicians who opposed their fascist ideology. These people run the notional “Ukraine” today. May God cut their time short to lessen the suffering of the innocents (which includes most of the Uniates, who oppose fascism as much as any group of normal people do).
BMD