@MichaelAArouet They are not in power but became very powerful. Hopefully it will not happen, but would not hold my breath especially if things deteriorate in Germany.
@MichaelAArouet Poland is finally playing the right political game! Like the US, Switzerland and Israel they realized that the relationship with Russia is much more important than with Ukraine or even Germany. We will never again sacrifice or spill blood for the dysfunctional EU.
@FinansowyUmysl Z tym szczęściem w Skandynawii to nie przesadzajmy. W Szwecji jest 60x więcej gwałtów na mieszkańca niż w Polsce. Dla gwałcicieli to raj, ale jak się jest kobietą to już gorzej!
@patrycjuszwyzga Wysadzić w powietrze PKiN, pomnik ku chwale Józefa Stalina, wyczyścić graffiti na Marszałkowskiej, Pięknej i Nowy Świecie i jesteśmy w Europie!
@MichaelAArouet Strong immigration policies with thorough vetting and insuring that only the most qualified and fully integrated into the European culture and society get a chance to stay.
July 1943 marked one of the darkest months in Polish history:
During the summer of 1943, the massacres of ethnic Poles in Volhynia reached their horrific peak. On July 11, 1943 known as “Bloody Sunday”- units of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), often assisted by local collaborators, launched coordinated attacks on dozens of Polish villages, many of them while families were gathered for Sunday Mass.
Men, women, children, and the elderly were murdered with extraordinary brutality. Entire communities that had existed for generations were erased. Churches were attacked, homes burned, and those who attempted to flee were often hunted down. Historians estimate that tens of thousands of Polish civilians were killed in Volhynia, with the broader campaign in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia claiming approximately over 100,000 Polish lives.
For decades, many of these victims had no voice. Their graves often remained unmarked, their stories suppressed, and their families denied the opportunity to properly mourn.
When we recall these atrocities it is not about fostering hatred toward today’s Ukrainians. It is about honoring innocent victims, acknowledging historical truth, supporting the dignified exhumation of those still lying in forgotten burial sites, and recognizing that genuine reconciliation can only be built upon truth rather than silence.
May the victims of Volhynia be remembered. Eternal memory to those whose lives were taken simply because they were Polish.
“A nation that forgets its victims risks losing part of its soul.”
@vonderleyen@ZelenskyyUa Just make sure please that the recent resurgence of Fascism in Ukraine is stopped and the Nazis in the government are eliminated. No need to remind you that supporting Fascism does not end well.
Reading about Zelenskyy's National Pantheon, I feel betrayed. And I suspect millions of Ukrainians who voted for him in 2019 feel the same.
We did not vote to elevate a regional, Western Ukrainian cult of ultranationalists, fascists, and antisemites, responsible for the killing of Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian civilians, including women, children, and the elderly under the slogans "Glory to Ukraine!" and black-and-red flags into the pantheon of national heroes.
That is certainly not what Kharkiv, Dnipro, or Odesa voted for. Bandera and Shukhevych are not their heroes. In their historical memory, these are not liberators but men whose followers shot their grandfathers and mutilated their grandmothers.
These are not the heroes a democratic state in the twenty-first century should be enshrining.
The tragedy is not merely that this history remains contested. It is that the Ukrainian state is attempting to settle that dispute from above, by transforming one regional historical myth into an official national creed.
Ukraine under Zelenskyy has taken a wrong turn.
@MichaelAArouet This sounds like Russian paranoia. Russia is also Poland's neighbor. Long range the relationship with Russia, like in the case of the United States, in more important than the relationship with Ukraine or Germany.