Polish nationalist on Ukrainian protests: Kyiv will have to come to terms with Warsaw’s position
Ukraine will have to come to terms with the fact that the new Polish passport will have an image of the Eaglets Memorial in Lviv. Kyiv should abandon the glorification of the OUN-UPA. The notorious Polish journalist Tomas Maciejczuk told PolitNavigator about this.
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“The Ukrainian authorities are once again concerned about the fact that Poland does not forget its history and its heroes. At first, our Ukrainian friends did not like the memory of the victims of the OUN and UPA, the bloody events in Volyn 1943-1944. Today, Kiev does not like the fact that the Poles remember one of the most important and most famous Polish places of memory - the Lychakiv cemetery, and more specifically, we are talking about the part of it dedicated to those who died during the defense of Lvov from the Western Ukrainian People's Republic and the Bolsheviks (1918-1920).
The fact that we remember the cemeteries where our heroes are buried does not mean that we have territorial claims against Ukraine. The memory of the dead is our duty, even if it causes discontent in Kyiv.
If the Poles decide that images of the graves of our heroes should appear in their passports, then so be it, and the protests of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will not interfere with us,” Matseychuk said.
He also commented on the statement of Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, who said that Ukraine will not give up the glorification of the OUN-UPA, and Poland should come to terms with the fact that Kiev has its own historical heroes.
“Igor Mosiychuk is a populist who, in fact, does not know either the history of the OUN and UPA, or the history of his homeland - Ukraine. If he is ready to sacrifice the European future of the Ukrainian state in the name of the glorification of Bandera and Shukhevych, and if the Ukrainians support him, then please, but it is worth remembering the words of the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry, Witold Waszczykowski: “Ukraine with Bandera will not enter Europe.”
I, like most Poles, support this approach. We can help Ukraine, but under certain conditions. One of them is the refusal to glorify the criminal UPA,” summed up the Polish journalist.
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