Raymond

[Wirtualna Polska @wirtualnapolska]

🔴Ukraińcy złożą wieniec przed pomnikiem rzezi wołyńskiej. "UPA nie jest naszym bohaterem"

Ukraińcy mieszkający w Polsce zrzucili się na wieniec w barwach Polski i Ukrainy. 11 lipca, w rocznicę zbrodni wołyńskiej, złożą go przed Pomnikiem Rzezi Wołyńskiej w Warszawie. Choć, jak przyznają organizatorzy wydarzenia, spodziewają się kontrowersji, mówią o sobie jasno: "UPA nie jest naszym bohaterem, a bez oddania hołdu pomordowanym nie będzie prawdziwego polsko-ukraińskiego pojednania".

🖊️@Tomasz_Molga
https://t.co/uoiguj8TYE

[Łukasz Warzecha @lkwarzecha]

Hej @MKiS_GOV_PL, może jakaś akcja z memami o tym, czego nie należy mówić o dzikach, żeby ich nie dyskryminować? Mieszkańcy osiedla w Markach na pewno poczują się lepiej.
https://t.co/Kk7NL7YpXO

[Institute of National Remembrance @ipngovpl_eng]

The Righteous Among Ukrainians

“Za odnoho poliaka holova do pniaka” (“for one [saved] Pole, a head to the chopping block”) - this slogan, popular among Ukrainian nationalists committing genocide in Volhynia, reminds us of the immense courage shown by those Ukrainians who, risking their lives, opposed the criminal ideology. Many of them were murdered as brutally for showing humanity as the Poles they tried to save.

The ideology of Ukrainian nationalism, built from the mid-1920s onwards, assumed the creation of an ethnically homogeneous state, detached from hundreds of years of largely peaceful coexistence of nations and faiths. “The closeness was so great that when the massacres had already begun, in some Polish villages people, contrary to the facts, refused until the very end to believe that anything bad could threaten them from their neighbours,” recalled Fr Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec from Berezowica Mała in Podolia.

Warning others of impending danger was the most common form of assistance. “Run away, because they will be killing today,” one Polish family heard from their Ukrainian neighbour. Hiding Poles in one’s own homes and farm buildings, often for many months, also required extraordinary courage. “He says [to my father]: ‘It’s so good that you’re alive.’, and he took him to the attic and kept him there for two weeks,” recalled one of the survivors.

Being hidden by Ukrainians did not always mean the end of the ordeal. In the archives of the Chief Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation there is an exceptionally moving account, given in 1985, of the fate of seven-year-old Jadzia Dziekańska, who, despite severe wounds, survived for several days beside the body of her murdered mother. She was found among fields of grain by a Ukrainian family and taken to a nearby village. “In Werbcz, the village council wanted to kill Jadzia because she was a Polish child, but an unknown Ukrainian family defended her, as did a teacher, also a Ukrainian from Werbcz, who could speak fluent Polish, and who won the fight for Jadzia’s life and took her in to raise her,” recalled Franciszka and Roman Piotrowski. After the war ended, Jadzia returned to her father, who had survived.

The UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) carried out numerous murders, including of its own comrades who refused to take part in the cruel killing of their neighbours. In order to combat “desertion”, Bandera’s followers established the Security Service of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), referred to as the “partisan Gestapo”, which often carried out killings of those who refused to participate in the massacres. The greatest danger, however, awaited those who provided help out of compassion for their neighbours. “Shura Sapozhnik, the prettiest girl in the village, I remember her well, her braids reached all the way to the ground. I also remember how she mourned the death of my sister Wanda together with my mother and sympathised with the Poles. She was murdered in a cruel way. The thugs tricked her into going to the forest [...] under the pretext of dressing the wounds of an injured comrade whom the ‘Lakhs [Poles] had shot’,” recalled a resident of the village of Koszów in Volhynia.

The authors of “The Book of the Righteous of the Eastern Borderlands 1939-1945”, published by the IPN, estimate that at least 1,341 Ukrainians helped Poles despite the threat of reprisals from Ukrainian nationalists. They provided shelter, warned of planned attacks, helped people escape or saved the wounded, risking their own lives and the lives of their families. According to widely varying estimates, at least several hundred of them were murdered by the Banderites (Bandera’s followers). A more precise number of victims among the Righteous is not possible to estimate, among other reasons because of the difficulty of clearly establishing the motives behind the crimes. In some cases, the killings may also have been linked to suspicions of cooperation with Soviet partisans.

Since 2019, the Righteous have been honoured with the Virtus et Fraternitas Medal, awarded by the Witold Pilecki Institute of Solidarity and Valour. So far, it has been awarded posthumously to 27 Ukrainians who helped Poles, as well as to two people who, for decades, preserved the memory of murdered Poles. The Virtus et Fraternitas Medal has also been awarded to two Czechs from Volhynia who helped Poles.

More:
https://t.co/uOlT5sBGC4

https://t.co/jwe6m7ByuS

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@OniszczukAssoc Uważałbym ze sformułowaniami ,,strona biorąca" i ,,strona dająca". Zapewne autor miał na myśli wkład w PKB, ale ktoś gotów pomyśleć, że nauczyciele i naukowcy to darmozjady, bo ,,nic nie dają".

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@KanalOtwarty_pl ,,Francuskich" z małej ;)

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@FKeubel Niemand in Polen will Lemberg zurück, anscheinend gibt es aber viele in Deutschland, die gerne Grenzen wieder verschieben würden...

[Jonas Aston @Jns_Astn]

Nach dem gestrigen, für meine Kollegen und mich schockierenden Tag möchte ich mich kurz melden: Uns geht es den Umständen entsprechend gut. Bedanken möchte ich mich für die vielen Genesungswünsche sowie ausdrücklich bei der Polizei, die Schlimmeres verhindert hat.

Geradezu empörend empfanden meine Kollegen und ich jedoch die Samstagabendausgabe des @heutejournal. Dort war verhöhnend von einem „Fest der Demokratie“ die Rede. Die Hetzjagd und die archaischen Szenen, die sich gestern Morgen ereigneten, werden hier mit keiner Silbe erwähnt.

Auch Innenminister Georg Maier muss sich umfassend hinterfragen. Ihm zufolge gehe von diesem Wochenende in Erfurt ein positives Signal aus. „Man kann zufrieden sein. Es ist bunt und laut“, so Maier. Kein Wort über die Angriffe auf Pressevertreter, kein Wort über das Gut der Pressefreiheit. Stattdessen spricht er von „gewissen Auseinandersetzungen am Rande“.

Und an die Täter: Stellt euch der Polizei, wenn ihr noch ein letztes bisschen Ehre und Moral zusammenkratzen könnt.

[jachcy🇵🇱 @jachcy]

Oni serio nie mają się czym zajmować?

[Lithuania MFA 🇱🇹 | #StandWithUkraine @LithuaniaMFA]

457 years ago, the Act of the Union of Lublin established the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth – an early model of shared sovereignty and a multicultural, multilingual and religiously diverse state.

Today, this shared 🇱🇹🇵🇱 legacy continues to inspire our work for a united Europe.

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@paz_preussische Warum sollte Deutschland das interessieren? Hm, vielleicht weil die Änderungen im Osten ohne den deutschen Angriffskrieges nicht möglich gewesen wären?

[Beatrice Achterberg @BeaBovary]

Journalismus-Simulation. Richtig reagiert.

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@welt Wieder dieser ,, Journalist", der nur israelisches Leid sieht.

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

An ugly chapter of World War II history is straining relations between Warsaw and Kyiv. https://t.co/5b8tTHUT6g

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Compare the headlines:

Zeit Online has omitted that the commission found that Israel is committing genocide

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@ulrichspeck Sure, why should we undermine Israel's Greater Israel project, let's stick to supporting its genocidal wars.

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@Szymon_Szereda @FicWojciech Używa czy nie, oficjalna nazwa sił powietrznych to wciąż Luftwaffe. Też byłem zaskoczony :)

[Recep Tayyip Erdoğan @RTErdogan]

Polonya Cumhurbaşkanı Sayın Karol Nawrocki ve heyetini ülkemizde misafir etmekten memnuniyet duydum. 🇹🇷🇵🇱

Polonya’yla altı asrı aşan köklü tarihimizden aldığımız güçle iki müttefik ve stratejik ortak olarak her alanda iş birliğini geliştiriyoruz.

Görüşmelerimizde ticaretten yatırımlara, savunma sanayisinden enerji ve beşerî ilişkilere kadar birçok başlıkta fikir alışverişinde bulunduk.

10 milyar dolarlık ticaret hacmi hedefimize erişmemizin ardından 15 milyar dolarlık hedef belirledik.

Polonya, yaklaşık 9 milyar dolar tutarındaki projeyle müteahhitlik firmalarımızın en faal olduğu ülkeler arasında yer alıyor.

Polonya’yla bir diğer potansiyel alanı ulaştırma teşkil ediyor.

Polonya’nın da desteğiyle stratejik ortak olduğumuz “Üç Deniz Girişimi” bu konuda önemli bir platform sunuyor.

Savunma sanayisi de ikili iş birliğimizin öne çıkan gündem maddelerinden biri.

Avrupa’nın güvenlik ve savunma mimarisinde vazgeçilmez yere sahip olan iki NATO müttefiki olarak bu iş birliğimizi güçlendirmek için çalışıyoruz.

Görüşmemizde Rusya-Ukrayna savaşındaki son durum ve İran bağlantılı gelişmeleri de etraflıca değerlendirdik, her iki alanda da barışa duyulan ihtiyaca dikkat çektik.

Bu minvalde asla gölgede kalmaması gereken hususların başında Filistin ve Orta Doğu’da kalıcı barışa giden süreç geliyor.

Filistin Devleti’ni tanıyan ülkeler arasındaki Polonya’dan iki devletli çözüme olan desteğini sürdürmesini bekliyoruz.

[Raymond @00_RayMond_00]

@MichaelAArouet Looks like you have zero expertise on Polish internal politics or history, since you fail to understand why he stood up to Zelensky. A decision which is, as you probably don't know, welcomed by the majority of Poles.

[Jan Pallokat 🇵🇱🇩🇪 @pallokat]

@derspiegel Vor allem ist recht unbekannt, wie mörderisch deutsche "Einsatzgruppen" und andere Barbarenverbände aus Germany schon zuvor in Polen gemordet und geraubt haben.

Als habe der Horror für die Völker Europas erst mit dem Angriff auf die UdSSR begonnen.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is not a normal statement from a normal cabinet member of a major nation. 

This statement from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is the statement of a war criminal. 

The racist, extremist Israeli government does not deserve one nickel of U.S. support.