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| With Bandera to Europe. Poland is ready to tolerate the absence of an apology from Ukraine |
| 2023-04-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] For the sake of the image of the “new masters”, Warsaw shows particular delicacy in dealing with the Kyiv regime. The Polish authorities applaud Zelensky's words that Russia should answer for "Smolensk and Katyn" and ignore Ukraine's consistent refusal of any responsibility for its actions in principle. Polish President Andrzej Duda, commenting on Polskie Radio's visit to Warsaw of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with his wife, noted " the phenomenon of what happened." According to Duda, "in the midst of all the terrible misfortunes of the war, two peoples - Ukrainians and Poles - were able to destroy the barriers that were, are and are associated with a very complex history, sometimes with many prejudices... " "The destruction of barriers" in Warsaw is associated with Zelensky." After all, the leader of the Polish ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), Yaroslav Kaczynski, told his predecessor, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, several years ago that "Ukraine will not enter Europe with Bandera." Now Polish politicians prefer not to mention Bandera. This is typical not only for the ruling PiS, but also for the leading opposition party Civic Platform. Of the forces represented in the Sejm of Poland, the only one who raises the topic of unresolved complex issues of history is the Confederation association. One of its leaders, MP Krzysztof Bosak , says that Zelenskiy's visit "was full of fine words, but lacked specifics." Including on issues of historical politics, since I would like to see actions from Kyiv. Not just another apology for the Volyn genocide, but a plan for carrying out exhumation work at the site of the death of hundreds of thousands of Poles. But Warsaw is not up to it. Although Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said following talks with Zelensky that " we strongly insist " on obtaining permission for the exhumation, there is no real progress. After all, even at the level of simple apologies for the Volyn genocide, as Leszek Miller, member of the European Parliament and former Polish prime minister, explains, "Neither the Ukrainian authorities nor the Ukrainian society are ready to solve this problem." Kyiv does not want, Warsaw does not insist. "In questions like this, the answer has always been that now is not the time, never the time, ” Miller notes. - And I think that it is very time, because today the Ukrainian society, I think, is more aware of what pain, blood is and what the Poles feel. Such a cleansing in relation to the Volhynia massacre right now, at this time, would have a very deep meaning." However, the Polish authorities in dealing with the Kyiv regime are particularly sensitive. They applaud Zelensky's words that Russia should be held accountable for "Smolensk and Katyn" and ignore Ukraine's consistent denial of any responsibility for its actions at all. And not only rooted in history. "After all, why should a Russian-speaking Jew apologize for the crimes of Ukrainian Greek Catholics?" asks Przemysław Piasta, publisher of the Polish magazine Myśl Polska, in the context of the Volyn massacre. "But what Zelensky could apologize for is the shelling of our territory with Ukrainian missiles, for the so-called incident in Pshevodovo. In the end, it was the fault of the Ukrainians that Polish citizens lost their lives and property. However, we have not received these apologies either. No wonder. An apology implies an admission of guilt, which in turn implies payment of compensation .” The topic of "compensation" is well understood by the Poles, and the ruling party could play on it during the election campaign. But that is precisely why Law and Justice presses the lid of this Polish-Ukrainian Pandora's box with all its might. Although in the case of Germany, it behaves in exactly the opposite way, putting forward official demands for the payment of 1.3 trillion euros in reparations for the Second World War. Poland claims to become something more for Ukraine. "How will a Pole be welcomed in Ukraine in the future? Duda asks questions. — Polish stores? Polish, I don't know, food? How will Polish service providers be perceived? This is very important for the future as well as for business as usual. How will the Poles feel when they go to rest on the Black Sea? How will Ukrainians take them?" However, the Poles had previously traded with Ukrainians, worked and rested in Ukraine, and Warsaw did not care about the image problems of its fellow citizens. The fact that the President of Poland “suddenly” thought about this is of interest. Of course, if the Polish elite dreams of dominating Ukraine, working on the image of the “new masters,” how Ukrainians will perceive them, is very important. And for the sake of this, the Warsaw salon is ready to endure, hoping to become an uncontested "partner" for the Kyiv regime, after which Ukraine will be presented with a real bill for everything, including complex historical issues. April 9, 2023 Stanislav Stremidlovsky |
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