Prime Minister Tusk arrived in Lviv yesterday. At a press conference, he called for Western leaders to support Ukraine more than always before.
"Stop speculating about the possible failure of Ukraine. This has nothing to do with facts," he said. He besides expressed the belief that if the war with Russia brought something good it was surely solidarity and common knowing between Poles and Ukrainians. The weather was bad, and the Prime Minister did not have time to walk in Lviv. besides bad. For example, he could cross 1 of the city's main streets – a typical artery named Stepan Bandera. There you can see the 30-metre-high colonnade and the statue of Bandera, depicting it in a somewhat dislocated coat. Moving on, he could see the street of judaic Konowalc, the founder and first commander of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS), which played a key function in shaping Ukrainian nationalism in the 20th century.
In inter-war Poland, this structure ran a bloody terrorist activity. The City Council of Lviv concluded that 1 street is not adequate so in the area of the Lviv University of Technology there will be a monument honorably commemorating the armed activity and intellectual achievements of this militant. The Prime Minister may have passed the intersection with the UPA Heroes Avenue. Yes, this is the organization that slaughtered 120 1000 Poles, mainly old people, women and children in Volyn and east Galicia. Heroes who usage axes, forks, scythes, saws, hammers or average bars effectively, as evidenced by Polish bones stretched across fields, forests, meadows, wells or buried in the pits of death buried in heaps of garbage.
The Prime Minister could besides see the place where the Russian drone hit on January 1, that year, destroying the museum of the commander of UPA Roman Szuchewycz. Mer Lwowa Andrij Sadowy eagerly hosted at Warsaw salons immediately informed that the restoration of this crucial facility would begin shortly after the victory. The general and the commander-in-chief of the UPA, in addition to his street and postument, will so be reopened. possibly the Polish delegation would attend this ceremony? On the another hand, the UPA veterans could be disappointed that not all Poles were murdered.
Returning to Szuchewycz – he ordered cultural cleansing of Volyn from Poles, which meant physical elimination of the population, demolition of the village and violent acts of violence. The goal was to execution and force Poles to escape. The creation of an ethnically unified Ukrainian state, according to the OUN-UPA ideology, which treated Poles, Jews, Russians and another nationalities as “enemy elements”. Modern Ukraine worships specified heroes. Prime Minister Tusk did not get to know these symbols of glory. It's okay, possibly another time.
Leszek Miller
Photo: S. Bandera monument in Lviv
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