SW Research’s research for rp.pl shows that Poles want unlimited exhumations of the victims of the Volhynia genocide. When asked whether the Ukrainian authorities should agree to this, no less than 64.7 percent. of respondents answered yes.
26 percent of the respondents said they had no opinion on this and 9.3 percent. dissapointing.
Men (74 percent) and those over 50 (75 percent) are more likely to agree to unlimited exhumations of the victims of the Volhynia massacre. Nearly 8 out of 10 people with incomes above PLN 5,000 think Ukrainian authorities should allow unlimited exhumations of victims of the Volhynia massacre (76%). Slightly more than 7 out of 10 inhabitants of cities with 200-499 thousand inhabitants share this view. inhabitants (72%) and cities with 20-99 thousand inhabitants. residents (71%)
commented on the results of the study Malgorzata Bodzonsenior project manager at SW Research.
Genocide in Volhynia
On July 11 and 12, 1943, the UPA carried out a coordinated attack on the Polish inhabitants of 150 villages in Volhynia. It was the culmination of the wave of crimes against Poland that had been going on since the beginning of 1943, which killed about 100,000 people in Volhynia and eastern Galicia. people.
The perpetrators of the Volhynia genocide were members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – B (Bandera’s faction), the UPA subordinated to it and the Ukrainian population encouraged by them, neighbors of Poland, often blood-related to them. Roman Shukhevych, the commander-in-chief of the UPA, is directly responsible for issuing the punishment order. The OUN-UPA called its actions an “anti-Polish move” to make Ukraine an area inhabited exclusively by Ukrainians.
Since spring 2017, there has been a dispute between Warsaw and Kiev over the ban on the search for and exhumation of the remains of Polish victims of wars and conflicts on the territory of Ukraine, introduced by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance. The ban was issued after the dismantling of the illegal UPA monument in Hruszowice in April 2017.
In November 2022, the Freedom and Democracy Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed about the permission of the Ukrainian authorities to search and exhume the graves of Poles killed by the UPA in Ukraine, with the cooperation of Polish specialists. The Foundation announced on its Facebook profile that on November 2, 2022 it had obtained permission from the Ukrainian authorities to start archaeological and search work on the graves of Poles killed by the UPA unit in February 1945 in the town of Puźniki in Podolia, in the former province of Tarnopol.
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Source: wPolityce