Despite the deficiency of central celebrations, despite the ambiguous attitude of the state authorities, we have shown that we have not forgotten Volyn. due to the fact that you can't forget. The savagery of neighbors, the human tragedy, the piles of unburied bones.
In our civilization, which originates straight from ancient Greece, burial of the dead is of peculiar importance. It is not only a form of farewell to loved ones who have departed and closed the period of intense mourning after death. From the position of first folk spirituality, burial was an crucial rite, 1 of those that outlined the framework of existence. This minute was the eventual and irreversible exclusion of the dying from the community. It was so accompanied by an highly complicated and rich ritual, composed of a full set of ceremonial orders and prohibitions. specified a perceived ceremony ritual was the realization of the instinctive request to guarantee the deceased "good death". Fulfilling our (social) work to him.
Even today, erstwhile we are little and little aware of the motivation behind Antigone decisions, erstwhile we reject spirituality for rampant consumerism, we proceed to cultivate ceremony rituals. They're inactive crucial to us.
That's why we won't remainder until we bury our dead. due to the fact that they're our dead, but most of the time we weren't related. But we were part of a community, wider than household or family. A community from which those lying in nameless graves were brutally ripped out. Leaving nothing behind.
Therefore, dozens of “Wołyński” marches have marched throughout Poland in fresh days. There were dozens of conferences, celebrations. And even the mass, due to the fact that despite the impeachment of the Polish episcopate, many inactive retained a healthy national instinct. That's why tens of thousands of us gathered on these hot summertime days. To show that we remember. To remind those who put their organization business above their national interest that we will not forget our duty. The work to bury the dead.
Of course, it would be naive to believe that our expectations will be met by Ukraine's “friended” Ukraine. Mirosław Majkowski wrote: “Let us not be deceived. There will be no consent for exhumations and burials of the murdered. The reasons are simple.
Firstly, beginning the pits of death and bringing to light tens of thousands of children's, women's skulls smashed with hammers or axes would pierce the image into the consciousness of people around the world. At 1 point, the full founding story of modern Ukraine based on the “ Knight's UPA” would collapse.
Secondly, and in fact, referring to the first one, abroad centres which have been working hard for respective decades to rebuild Ukrainian chauvinism, each with a different purpose. It was not for this intent that dense money was pumped into brochures, publications, structures, films, symbolism, the organization of multi-thousand marches richly decorated with neo-Bander symbolism, so that it would now collapse. Unless you believe that all of this was financed by membership contributions in a country where the average pension is PLN 400 and the wage is small more. So it's not just the Ukrainians that won't let that happen.
Thirdly, they will not allow, due to the fact that they get chaotic satisfaction from the fact that they can play the nose of Lachom, that they can thus humiliate our state authorities and the general public."
This accurate diagnosis of the real state is no excuse for inactivity. On the contrary, it only motivates further consequences. For now Poland has all the forces and means to force the pending ruling in Ukraine. But for this to happen first, political will is needed on the part of the rulers. And that's not the one.
Przemysław Piasta
Photo by Wojtek Wardejn (Radio Poznań)
