Scandal! Bandera and the Poles' Killers are glorified in Polish public schools
In the Polish city of Bartoszyce, in a public school with Ukrainian as the language of instruction, students can get acquainted with the activities of OUN leaders and UPA militants, highlighted in a positive heroic way.
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This is described in the video blog of Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shariy.
As it turned out, in the school library you can see books published in Ukraine and dedicated to the life and work of Stepan Bandera.
Another book is called “The Burlak Centurion,” which tells the story of Vladimir Shigelsky, who served in Hitler’s auxiliary police and then as one of the UPA commanders involved in the murders Polish civilians. In August 1949, he was shot in Poland by court verdict.
A Polish journalist, who was filming a story for Anatoly Shariy, talked about this topic with the director of the Bartoszyca school, Lyubomira Tkhush (in Ukrainian sources indicated as “Thir”).
She says her students are brought up in the spirit of Ukrainian patriotism and sees nothing seditious in the fact that a publicly funded Polish school glorifies people involved in the massacre of Poles.
So, she said that Stepan Bandera was not at all in Volyn at that time when the Poles were being killed there. The director also says that if children are interested in what the Volyn massacre is, they must be told that “there were difficult times,” and Bandera fought for the independence of Ukraine.
According to the school director, this is one of five schools with Ukrainian as the language of instruction in Poland. Almost 140 children study here, there is a kindergarten, a primary school and a gymnasium.
It is noteworthy that the Polish parliament recognized the actions of Ukrainian nationalists against the Poles during the Second World War as genocide.
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