The massacre in Volhynia was an extremely brutal genocide, cruel, even worse than the German genocides. We must deal with this, say the right words and find the cemetery – emphasized Saturday on RMF FM radio Deputy Prime Minister, PiS President Jarosław Kaczyński.
The president of PiS in RMF FM, who asked if he saw the possibility of a Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation in connection with the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Volhynia massacre, said it was difficult.
When this anniversary comes, and it will be very soon, it must be said that this genocide was extremely cruel, brutal, even worse than the German genocides. You have to take it into account. It is necessary to say the right words here and at the same time find cemeteries where possible. These people should be buried properly, as they deserve
said Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
When asked if he would be willing to go to Kiev and say this to President Volodymyr Zelensky, he replied that he once said it to former President Petra Poroshenko in the Sejm building, “and in even more decisive forms .”
But at the moment I don’t think it will help whatever our main goal right now is to beat Russia. They think they can’t do it now. I do not share this opinion, but they are the ones who lead the war, they die on the fronts, they are bombed, they are destroyed in various ways. Genocide was planned for them too, because that was the plan. That’s how it should be defined
Kaczynski emphasized.
He added that while it should be taken into account, it should not be forgotten or withdrawn.
No nation can accept a genocide against its citizens, and no genocide can be accepted – if it is a civilized nation and a state –
said the deputy prime minister.
Genocide in Volhynia
80 years ago, on July 11 and 12, 1943, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army launched a coordinated attack against the Polish inhabitants of about 150 towns in the provinces of Włodzimierz, Horochów, Kovel and Lutsk. The fact that people gathered in churches on Sunday, July 11, was used. “Bloody Sunday” is considered the culmination of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against Poles in Volhynia and Galicia.
Researchers calculate that on this one day alone, July 11, about 8,000 people could have died. Poles – mainly women, children and the elderly. The UPA operation was the culmination of the wave of murder and expulsion of Poles from their homes, which had been going on since early 1943, in which about 100,000 people died in Volhynia and eastern Galicia. Poland.
The perpetrators of the Volhynian crime were the OUN – the faction of Stepan Bandera, the UPA subordinate to it, and the Ukrainian population who took part in the murders of Polish neighbors. The OUN-UPA called its actions “anti-Polish action”. This term hid the intention to murder and expel Poles. Roman Shukhevych, the main commander of the UPA, is directly responsible for carrying out the genocidal ethnic cleansing of the Polish civilian population in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland.
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