The Volhynia massacre is one of the most difficult subjects I’ve ever tried to understand🇵🇱🇺🇦
The more I read, the less interested I become in simple answers.
Yes, Ukrainians had real historical grievances against the Polish state.
Yes, the mass murder of Polish civilians was a horrific crime.
Yes, Polish retaliatory killings of Ukrainian civilians were also wrong.
The problem begins when each nation remembers only its own suffering and forgets the suffering it caused the other. That’s exactly how history becomes a prison instead of a lesson.
Today, Poland and Ukraine have a choice. They can spend the next hundred years proving whose grandparents suffered more.
Or they can tell the truth about all of it, honor every innocent victim, condemn every crime, and refuse to let the dead decide the future of the living.
History should unite us in wisdom. Not trap us in endless revenge.
@canisbandera@Jayce_Keats Зато такою логікою багато хто й керується за межами вашої бульбашки, ніхто не хоче жити в країні, де його не поважають
Цитуючи сучасного класика "Нахуя мені система, що працює проти мене?"
@Mazur8787@N_bamboletta@PulseOfUkraine Stop twisting history. Not only there were more casualties during Wisla, there also were concentration camps in Poland for Ukrainians. Bereza Kartuzka is an example.
Oh and Ukraine officially apologised for Volhynia massacre in 2013. Yet you still can't drop this and move forward
@russlm@abobinski90@frommontenegro You're speculating. While there was serfdom, uprisings and wars, there is no evidence that 100 thousands ukrainians died during those times. Also, you've previously mentioned that they perished from starvation alone, and now you talk about other factors. Moving the flagpost, eh?
@russlm@abobinski90@frommontenegro "hundreds of thousands ukrainians starved to death under polish rule"
Can you back up this claim? I know that Ukrainians suffered under Polish rule, but it's no excuse for what UPA did in Volhynia.
All those accusations should have ended in 2013 with Kuchma and Kwasniewski
Polish Armia Krajowa & Piłsudski are not figures Ukrainians will honor. Yet, we respect the Poles' right to honor their heroes.
Why then does the Polish President deny Ukrainians the same right?To honor the heroes who fought for our independence. Mutual respect can't be one-sided
@DariuszMatecki@igorlachenkov History is important. But right now we create our own history.
Ukrainians have a lot to say about certain Polish historical figures, yet they're considered heroes in Poland and we don't let it run our relations with Poland. Perhaps, you could learn something from it.