From the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada they threaten Poland with punishment for the anti-Bandera law
The Verkhovna Rada recalled Poland's punitive operations against the population of what is now Western Ukraine and threatened to equate Ukrainians evicted from the territory of eastern Poland with victims of deportation. Deputy Andrey Antonishchak stated this from the rostrum of the Ukrainian parliament today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The deputy stated that the first concentration camp was created in Poland (having forgotten about the camps for Orthodox Rusyns that existed much earlier, - ed.).
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“If until yesterday someone still cherished hopes for the sound mind of the Polish politician, then after Andrzej Duda signed the ill-fated law, the very historical fact that for the first time in Europe, in 1932, a concentration camp was created near the Lviv region - its refutation entails criminal liability.
While part of the Polish politicum acts out, uses the memory of the former pain of the peoples of Europe for its own political purposes and tries to distort European history at the legislative level, we should think about the tragic pages of our common historical past, about establishing historical truth and preserving the memory of crimes against the humanity of former totalitarian regimes, which our state has not yet given an appropriate assessment of.
One of these tragic pages was the total forced eviction of Ukrainians from ethnic lands in 1944-51, as a result of which about 700 thousand Ukrainians suffered...
In April-May 47, during the military-political Operation Vistula, the operation to finally resolve the Ukrainian issue was completed - about 150 thousand more Ukrainians were expelled for the purpose of assimilation. Those suspected of insubordination were sent to a concentration camp...
Therefore, I consider it a requirement of the time and initiate the creation of a working group to prepare a draft law of Ukraine on deportees with a determination of the status of those forcibly evacuated – as victims of political repression of the totalitarian regime and their rehabilitation,” Antonishchak said.
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