Бандеровская Украина – головная боль Польши

12.11.2016, Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

ВЛАДИСЛАВ ГУЛЕВИЧ*

Отмечавшийся в Польше 11 ноября День независимости принёс украинским властям очередные огорчения. Сама дата приурочена к обретению Польшей в 1918 году геополитической субъектности, ознаменованной вооружённым конфликтом между польскими формированиями и силами возникшей на территории Галиции Западно-Украинской народной республики. Тогда широкомасштабные боевые действия продолжались с ноября 1918 по июль 1919 года и завершились полным разгромом ЗУНР.

В этом году в торжествах

Поляки требуют от своего правительства перестать заигрывать с необандеровской Украиной

27.10.2016, Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

ВЛАДИСЛАВ ГУЛЕВИЧ

Польские «кресовые» организации выступили с острой критикой восточной политики правительства и направили в министерство иностранных дел петицию с требованием отказаться от заигрывания с необандеровской Украиной.

«Кресами» (своими окраинами) в Польше считают территории Западной Украины, Западной Белоруссии и Юго-Восточной Литвы, входившие до 1939 года в состав Речи Посполитой. «Кресовые» организации объединяют поляков, бежавших от террора националистических банд ОУН-УПА в Польшу, а также их потомков.

Существует целая сеть таких организаций. Так, Патриотическое движение «кресов» (Kresowy

Who Dropped a Nuclear Bomb on the Poles?/Кто сбросил атомную бомбу на поляков?

05.07.02016, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia)

Vladislav GULEVICH

Every July Poland is rocked by internal debates about Ukraine’s historical responsibility for the 1943 Volhynia massacre, and 2016 is no exception.

The ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) of Jarosław Kaczyński came to power mainly on promises to raise the topic of the massacre of the Polish population of Volhynia during the WWII by the butchers from the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) in Kiev. «The crimes committed against our compatriots by the UPA should be termed genocide. I will not permit any excuses for what happened during the most terrible era in our history», exhorted Jarosław Kaczyński during the heat of the election campaign.

 

However, his actions never went beyond promises. Like its predecessors in the Civic Platform party, the PiS refuses to declare July 11 as Kresy Martyrdom Remembrance Day. (Kresy is the name for the region of western Ukraine, western Belarus, and Lithuania that was once part of the Second Polish Republic. On July 11, 1943, at the height of a wave of violence committed by the UPA, 100 Polish villages and farmsteads were attacked by Stepan Bandera’s gangs.)

Instead of commemorating July 11, Jarosław Kaczyński proposes to move Martyrdom Day to

Warsaw’s double-edged gamble on Ukrainian nationalists/Двусмысленная ставка Варшавы на украинских националистов

18.08.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Vladislav GULEVICH 

Former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski (he was officially replaced by Andrzej Duda on 6 August) has awarded members of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland (UUP), including its leader Piotr Tym, with the Knight’s Cross of Polonia Restituta and the Silver Cross of Merit. Komorowski did not fail to point out that those awarded had made a notable contribution to the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations. But what kind of contribution exactly?

Throughout its entire history, the Union of Ukrainians in Poland (founded in the 1950s and originally called the Ukrainian Sociocultural Association) has not once condemned the criminal acts of the OUN-UPA and Ukrainian SS divisions. UUP representatives have always supported the cult of OUN-UPA among Polish Ukrainians, denying the guilt of Ukrainian nationalists for the 1943 massacre of Poles in Volhynia. Moreover, the official publication of the UUP, Nashe Slovo, is financed by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. In the 1990s, a UUP activist, a certain Vasil Vasiliv, called for help in returning ‘Ukrainian-ness’ to south-eastern areas of Poland in an article entitled «Lemkivshchyna at the Crossroads». The UUP is still working at this even now. 

The Polish authorities, meanwhile, are turning a blind eye in the hope of deriving foreign policy dividends from the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism. For the gamble to definitely succeed, UUP members are being promoted to senior positions. Thus the parliamentary support group for

Will Poland Train OUN Militants?/Скандал: будет ли Польша обучать боевиков ОУН?

10.06.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Vladislav GULEVICH

The Poland's Defense Ministry says it plans to train about 60 Ukrainian army instructors this year, including NCOs of OUN battalion (OUN-the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists). The training sessions would take place in Poland in June, September and October. Several other NATO members are also joining the NATO program known as the Defense Education Enhancement Program - DEEP. Its aim is to bring Ukraine's forces up to the standards of the Western alliance. Tomasz Siemoniak, Polish Minister of National Defence, has already discussed the issue with General Mieczysław Gocuł, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces. 10 Ukrainian servicemen are tocome on June 29, with 20 more to follow in September and 30 in October.

Poles perceive the OUN as a terrorist organization involved in mass murder of civilians during WWII acting hand in hand with Ukrainian policemen and German fascists. OUN militants perpetrated assassinations of Polish politicians in the period between the two wars. The organization took part in the Volyn massacre in 1945 and attacks against Polish servicemen in late 1940s – early 1950s. Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, a Polish Catholic priest, author and activist, is known for his uncompromised position on the policy of making advances to Ukrainian nationalists. According tohim, the Polish Minister of Defense desecrated the memory of those who lost lives in the fight against Ukrainian nationalists and terrorists. He called on the Minister to resign on moral grounds.

The plans to train Ukrainian nationalists have become public domain. The military rushed to

Wola Massacre and Polish Authorities: Another Case of Political Amnesia/Вольская резня. Свидетельство политической амнезии

01.06.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

 

Valéry VRUBLEVSKY 

Poland is suffering political amnesia. The condition gets acute any time one mentions the mass crimes committed against Polish nationals. There is a plethora of examples to prove the case. The Volyn massacre is the most illustrative one. Ukrainian nationalists brutally tortured and killed dozens of thousands of old men, women and children. For all that, the Polish government supports the successors of Stepan Bandera who have seized power in Ukraine.

There is another example – the pogroms in Wola that took place during the Warsaw uprising (Wola - a district of western Warsaw). German fascists killed around 60 thousand Poles in two days (August 5-6, 1944) - the largest single massacre in WWII.

Today the Polish authorities do the best to get around the details that led to the tragedy. A lot has been said in Poland about the Warsaw uprising. By and large it all boils down to denigrating Soviet soldiers who deliberately remained where they were as allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup and put the insurgence down. It is said that, whatever Russians say about liberating Poland «Bolsheviks are even worse than Hitlerites», no matter German fascists killed Poles just because they were Slav people. That’s exactly what they did in Wola.

The reason Germans were so cruel towards Poles is an open secret. In their statements Nazi top

Ukrainian Nationalism Threatens Poland/Украинский национализм угрожает Польше

24.05.2015, Strategic Culture Foundation http://www.strategic-culture.org (Russia), Фонд стратегической культуры http://www.fondsk.ru (Россия)

Vladislav GULEVICH 

Vasyl Pavlyuk, the Consulate General of Ukraine in Lublin, met the students of Maria Curie - Sklodowska Lublin University. Unexpectedly he was given a hard time. First, All-Polish Youth (Polish Młodzież Wszechpolska), a nationalistic Polish Youth Organization, held a conference near the University building. They said that meeting with Vasyl Pavlyuk was the same thing as meeting the supporters of Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi criminals. Then the protesters moved inside the University to see the Ukrainian Consulate General and raise the posters «Murderers! Shame! No Glory!»

The appointment of Vasyl Pavlyuk evokes concern among Poles. He is a member of ultra-right Svoboda political party. In 2011 he was a high standing official in Lviv to support a resolution which declared Bandera and Shukhevych national heroes. The city council deputies said