About "anxiety", with which the Polish website refers to the content of textbooks describing the past of Ukraine, was written by the head of MEN Barbara Nowacka. She addressed her letter to her counterpart from the government in Kiev, and indicated in it a passage describing the Volyn crime. She asked for immediate action, including a review of the content published in Ukrainian textbooks.
In Letter Barbara Nowacka to the Minister of Education and discipline of Ukraine Fox Oxene MEN's chief "sorry" informed that "Polish side with large concern refers to content guides to Ukrainian history presenting events in Volyn, which took place between 1943 and 1947".
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She stressed that "a peculiarly hard time in the past of Volyn, and at the same time Polish-Ukrainian relations, was the time of planet War II and mass crimes on the Polish population known as 'the Volyn massacre', and made by Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA) and the local Ukrainian population".
Learn about Volyn in Ukrainian schools. Nowacka wrote a letter
Barbara Nowacka highlighted the content of the Handbook entitled "History of Ukraine" for grade 10 advanced school, issued in 2023. As she explained, it was a passage from page 256: "(UPA) operated mainly Volyn and Galicia. In 1943, he headed it Roman Shuchewycz. Within 2 years of being in the UPA ranks, 30-40 1000 soldiers entered".
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Then we read: "UPA activists considered Ukrainian communists, Nazis and Poles enemies. The origin of the tightening of Polish-Ukrainian relations was the mass killings of Ukrainians by the National Army. It was an underground Polish army whose management wanted to return to the pre-war borders of Poland. Its victims were the inhabitants of Chełmszczyna, Podlasie, Galicia and Volyn. The bloody Polish-Ukrainian war, followed by not only soldiers but besides civilians, continued until 1947".
Nowacka asked the Ukrainian minister to "take up immediate action, including reviewing another textbooks and preparing fresh ones that will correspond to the present Polish-Ukrainian relations".
Common uprising, Polish-Ukrainian, past textbook?
As mentioned in the letter of the MEN chief, representatives Poland and Ukraine monitor the content of textbooks in bilateral activities Commission of Experts on the Improvement of School Manuals from past and geography. She besides proposed to consider changing the functioning of the committee so that both parties could identify textbooks of common interest for review.
As a reason she pointed out that "both Ukrainian and Polish side study doubts about the content of history-learning textbooks".
At the same time, it informed that during the January, XXIV gathering of the Commission at Uzhhorad, 1 of its Ukrainian members called for the creation of a common past manual. She so asked Lisowy to take a position on the revision of the rules of functioning of the committee and on the possible preparation of a common manual.
