I cannot quite figure out where Mr. Sikorski was in 2023, when Ukraine’s acting Minister of Culture opened an exhibition at the Museum of Kyiv glorifying the Waffen-SS Galicia Division — an exhibition later exported to Lithuania and Estonia like some boutique fascist roadshow.
Where was his voice when units named after the Nazi-collaborationist Nachtigall and Roland battalions appeared in Ukraine’s Armed Forces?
Why the silence when the elite Azov-rooted Third Assault Brigade, having declared itself heir to the UPA, held fundraisers in Poland?
And now, when Poland’s patience has finally snapped, Warsaw is accused of playing into Russia’s hands.
No questions for Kyiv? None for Zelensky? 🤨
@Piegziu To wina ludzi z tamtego okresu. Obecnie prostowanie starych błędów jak widać jest nieco bolesne, choć ma swoją dobrą stronę. Jak nigdy zachód mówi o rzezi wołyńskiej. To bardzo dobra wiadomość dla nas
@KlaudiuszN4425@SSkibix Propagujesz teorie spiskową. Polacy Rosji nienawidzą, co jasno pokazują badania. Mówienie o jakimś kochaniu Rosji to absurd. Polacy wolą każdego niż Rosjan(i dobrze)
https://t.co/gw6PFRzYtD
73% Polaków wg ostatnich badań deklaruje niechęć. 7% symatpię
https://t.co/Imo2kVkvRH
“There is virtually no anti-Polish sentiment in Ukraine — and I visit the country often,” Professor Timothy Snyder recently assured readers in an interview with the media outlet Nowa Polska.
I beg to differ.
The cult of the OUN and UPA, actively nurtured and promoted by the Ukrainian state, is not merely anti-Russian; it is also fundamentally anti-Polish.
First, it justifies the mass murder of Polish civilians during the Second World War — children, women and men slaughtered in the name of building an independent, ethnically homogeneous Ukrainian state.
Second, it mocks the memory of those victims by creating endless obstacles to exhumations and by manipulating public understanding of historical events.
Third, it denies the responsibility of contemporary Ukraine for the crimes committed by the OUN and UPA, despite the fact that the Ukrainian state has chosen to elevate their leaders to the status of national heroes.
The cult of the OUN and UPA has deeply penetrated the military culture of Ukraine’s armed forces. Several units — including the Third Assault Brigade, Azov, Karpatska Sich, and the 67th Brigade — make use of the Decalogue of the Ukrainian Nationalist and the Prayer of the Ukrainian Nationalist. They openly glorify figures such as Bandera, Shukhevych, and Konovalets, all of whom were associated with anti-Polish violence.
The Azov movement, moreover, openly promotes the concept of a “Greater Ukraine,” envisioning the reclamation of Ukrainian “historical lands” that today belong to Poland.
For this reason, those who continue to claim that anti-Polish sentiment is absent in Ukraine are lulling Poles into a false sense of security.
They are perpetuating comforting myths while ignoring ideological currents that, if left unexamined, could one day pose a serious security threat to Poland.
A sober assessment of these realities is not an act of hostility toward Ukraine. It is a precondition for an honest conversation about history, memory, and the future of Polish-Ukrainian relations.
@KlaudiuszN4425@SSkibix Jak chcesz porównywać Ukrainę do antycywilizacyjnego, turańskiego wschodu jak Rosja to proszę. Na Rosję się nie da obecnie wpłynąć, jesteśmy wrogami, i oburzanie się oczywiście jest słuszne, ale poza notami dyplomatycznymi etc. wiele nie zrobimy, choć próbować warto