“ It is not our war, but it is simply a war in which our vital interests are set up ”

1. Territorial integrity of Ukraine

The young people of All Poland stand in the position of territorial integrity of Ukraine, recognising the violation of existing borders in Europe and the armed attack as contrary to the Polish national interest. Ukraine is simply a sovereign state and its independency is strategically crucial for the safety of the Republic of Poland.

2. Militaryization of the Nation

In the light of events taking place in the territory of our east neighbour, the precedence task of the authorities of the Republic of Poland should become militarisation of the nation, modernization of the Polish army and further work on strengthening our borders. Only independent deterrence is able to guarantee safety for Poles. Demoliber theories about the end of history, and thus wars between nations should be regarded as wrong. The coming times will require a strong nationalist and state attitude.

3. Hybrid War

After 24 February Poland undoubtedly became the most active country supporting Ukraine in the war against Russia. Of course, our country does not wage any war in the military sense, but war is not only military action - in addition to this military war, there is besides a diplomatic and economical war in which Poland gives direction, mobilising the Western planet to impose further sanctions on Russia, as well as supporting Ukraine, primarily military equipment. The support provided by Poland must never lead to a weakening of Poland and its defence potential, as indicated in the first point.

4. Weakness in Russia's position

The situation on the front is fierce and it is impossible to tell who will appear from the clash victoriously is an chance for Ukraine to improve its negotiating position, it is very real. The request for specified a configuration to start peace talks and end armed actions is contradictory, besides with the Polish national interest. The abolition of sanctions imposed on Russia and the simplification of support for Ukraine would strengthen Russia's position. The suspension of arms without a clear neutralization of the Russian threat will not end the conflict in Ukraine, but only hold the re-attack of the rebuilt Russia at a convenient minute for it.

5. Support costs for Ukraine

Russia's defeat in the war against Ukraine and its suppression of imperialist ambitions is in many reasons in the Polish interest. Without downplaying the cost of support for Ukraine, they are most likely little than the costs that we would bear if Putin achieved success in Ukraine, so we consider its support to be right.

6. National interest policy

Often very hard pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian declarations go hand in hand with appropriate support. There is uncertainty that they are sometimes even besides far away. From the point of view of global policy, a word specified as “we are servants of the Ukrainian people” should in no way happen. It is the work of the Polish authorities to conduct global policy in accordance with the Polish national interest. That's it. That's it. In no way can it be a national interest to be a servant of another nation. nevertheless it should be agreed that our national interest present is to weaken Russia and keep it as far east as possible and that the war is best fought without its hands, so in Polish-Ukrainian relations there are things that disturb.

7. Interests in relations with Ukraine

First of all, the deficiency of protection of our interests in the relationship. There is no mention of the issue of exhumation, there are no guarantees protecting Poland's position as the main 1 active in the reconstruction of Ukraine (of course we are talking about the variant in which we gain and do not add up), there is no real solution to the problem of Polish education, in the best bloom of flagism. Ukraine behaves towards Poland in a way that we can describe as insolent, while it should be her first to care about good relations. due to the fact that for them, it's existential. It's very crucial to us. Insolence is called "actions" specified as Wires (refuting and deficiency of apology and compensation, due to the fact that no 1 accuses of purposeful action), appointments for Melnyk, or widespread flagfing, especially by the major authorities. In addition, cases have not been resolved, the most crucial of which is the deficiency of burial of hundreds of thousands of people whose ashes lie in the fields and forests of Ukraine. besides doubtful guarantees regarding the participation of Polish companies in reconstruction of Ukraine, the deficiency of clear settlement of the issue of freedom of Polish education, or the negation of Polish culture in the east. Our national interest is not only weakening Russia, but besides doing Polish business in Ukraine itself.

8. Banderism in Ukraine

We have not had a breakthrough motion by the Ukrainian authorities on the anniversary of bloody Sunday, but it can be said that we have been faced with any falcons and besides straight negation of genocide by Ambassador Melnyk. The origin of Bandera's cult and popularity in today's Ukraine is usually the problem with the right alternate in the world. Ukrainians mostly reject Petlura as “co-operative with Poles”. any of the pages of his past lie on the Chmielnicki shadow, in peculiar his cooperation with Russia or his attitude towards native peasants ("black") but above all, he is not suitable for the main character due to the long chronological distance. Just as in Poland - nevertheless we like to mention Sobieski or Żółkiewski, we do not treat them as the main national heroes, primarily due to the later and inactive surviving events in our memory – from regaining independence, by the Second planet War, until yet fighting communism. Alive memory, frequently even traumas, naturally prompts us to look for the main characters in these events, all the more so that we have rather a good number of candidates for national heroes.

9. UPA Myth

In the UPA cult there is an crucial component that escapes us Poles – these formations not only murdered defenceless Poles, women and children, but besides fought with the russian guerrilla, then with the Red Army and the NKVD (de facto besides Polish CBW or UB). The visibility of this activity, with a simultaneous communicative indicating that the genocide in Poles was a consequence of bilateral armed actions aimed at building independent Ukraine, led to the construction in Ukrainian society of the image of UPA as unbreakable heroes fighting for Ukrainian independence. In the context of events in the east of the country there was a kind of consolidation of the Ukrainian people. As we know, common myths are highly needed in specified situations. This besides led to an increase in the popularity of UPA, venerated mainly in the west of Ukraine, throughout the country.

10. Exhumation of victims of the Volyn massacre

It is our country's work to bring about a kind of "accounting" of those events. This means, above all, 2 key elements. Firstly, the reparation which present is primarily the process of exhumation, the provision of a worthy burial and then appropriate commemoration. In fact, it is impossible to imagine a situation erstwhile the Polish president places flowers to the murdered Poles... in an honest field. It is simply a violation of all possible standards of civilization and a shame for the Polish state that it does not appeal to these issues today.

11. Poland to worship UPA

As a consequence of the current war, the worship of UPA does not decrease, and it grows paradoxically the largest is in areas where sympathy for Poles is greatest. Of course, it can be counted that over time there will be increasing legends of heroes of the current conflict, whether it is Zelensky or Klinky, or simply soldiers and army as such, however, it is improbable that he will rapidly be able to replace the UPA cult. Poland, on the another hand, should never agree to this cult, formally protest it, force slow gradual concessions in Ukraine, the first of which, and at the same time 1 of the most important, would undoubtedly be to apologize for those events, as well as to confess. It would be a milestone in the current relationship. Fans of Dynam Kiev, having agreed with Hutnik Kraków, issued a message in which on the 1 hand they condemned the anti-Polish actions of UPA, apologizing for them, but at the same time stressing that UPA were their heroes due to the conflict for independency of Ukraine, and especially the anti-Russian attitude. specified a position by the Ukrainian authorities would already be a milestone.

12. request for a position of Ukraine on the Volynian Reich

In the face of the cult of Bandery Poland should stay firm. The absolute starting point, without which we should have stopped all assistance to Ukraine, is consent and support in the exhumation work. The next step must be to force the authoritative position of the Ukrainian State towards the Volhynia Reich. Without this, our relation can never be honest and true.

13. Refugees from Ukraine

As a consequence of the war, many refugees from Ukraine were present in Poland, and with them there was a heated discussion about the anticipation of their acculture and assimilation in Polish society. A real look at these issues in the Polish public debate makes a fewer things difficult. The first is the functioning of myths that have been effectively infected by both the old and the fresh left, but besides by various varieties of Republican or Chadese centre-rights. It is easy to imagine that these are myths that, to put it mildly, do not advance the analysis of the problem in the spirit of national ideas. Poland, like any another nationality, is not a volunteer issue, a construct or a product of bourgeoisie, but a real existence to which all man is socialized in the first years of his life in his household and immediate surroundings. The second obstacle stems from the intellectual backwardness of our elites, who inactive consider the postmodernist concept of Ernst Gellner to be the leading paradigm of nationalism and nation to be a side product of capitalism and modernisation. Modern sociology of the nation considers this paradigm to be erroneous and islanded, but unfortunately her cognition is inactive low in Poland. This translates into ignoring even the already apparent facts, that nations have not ceased and will not cease to be due to the fact that this is the will of EU dignitaries, presently the most popular intellectuals or ruling politicians who dream even specified absurd, archaic and humiliating visions of the common state for both nations that we are considering. These people seem immune to a number of phenomena confirming the impossibility of jumping over national identities like Brexit, the increasing independency ambitions of the Scots, or the increasing popularity of national populism in the West.

14. Poland as an cultural community

The 3rd issue, which cannot be mentioned, is the abandonment by the Polish right wing of the definition of the community of Poles as an cultural community. In the 20th interwar period, this form was widely recognized by society, intellectual circles and political currents including sanitation environments, the most striking expression being the vocation to life in February 1937 by Edward Rydz-Smigular Camp of National Unification. The adoption profoundly steeped in nationalist rhetoric of the OZN declaration of the Russians in any ways questioned their own identity. The ideas of the endex possessed the full society and it was only by referring to the imagination of a political nation identical to the ethnically understood 1 could then kidnap the masses.

15. Mass immigration from Ukraine is simply a threat

The national disaster of planet War II physically eliminated the endings, and their thought during the communist era was effectively annihilated by liberal-left intelligence. Modern frequently constitutive Poles, and especially elites, do not appreciate the possible of ethnicity, so they do not realize many phenomena between peoples in the modern world.

The size of Ukrainian immigration to Poland exceeded the critical threshold, to which their assimilation would be possible even before the outbreak of the war in February this year. At a time erstwhile in Poland they are based on various estimates, up to 3.5 million Ukrainians, forming a parallel society, effective assimilation could only take place in conditions of truly strong violence, breaking existing social ties. Apart from the ethical issues of the harsh repression that immigrants would gotta undergo, our country does not have adequate possible for specified extremist action. The government presently has no control over what immigrants are doing in our territory and how they organize their social life.

16. Assimilation problems

Today we see problems with assimilation of many smaller groups around the world. Immigrants can contact their household or friends from their homeland at any time while remaining in the ellipse of native culture. frequently given historical examples from the Polish past of people assimilated to the Polish national community are completely inappropriate to today's situation, which has never occurred in our country before.

17. Ukrainians have their own identity

Assimilation is possible in the event of settling in the Polish environment up to respective families, not at the minute erstwhile Ukrainians abruptly make up respective percent of the population of the largest Polish cities. We regret that, contrary to the humming suggestions, Polish culture will not be attractive, for young Ukrainians who have already passed socialization into Ukrainian culture and identity, further reinforced by patriotic myths about the heroic achievements of their brothers, fathers, grandparents or relatives in the war with Russia. The possible of these myths is completely underestimated in the debate.

18. Cultural proximity does not exclude sharp disputes

Often derived from akin hummingbirds or centro-rights cursing the reality of commentators of the chance for assimilation see the alleged cultural proximity of Poles and Ukrainians. Apart from the fact that cultural proximity does not exclude sharp conflicts between communities - as even contemporary past of Europe teaches us - contrary to the stereotype, these nations are not peculiarly culturally close, but only linguistically and geographically.

19. Ukrainian Culture

The prospects for the culture of Ukrainian immigrants are besides not better. The word is frequently confused with assimilation, meaning full inclusion in a given nation is simply a broader word including besides indirect forms of adaptation to life in a fresh environment. Since the beginning of the immigration wave, however, Polish nationalism has become known as weak and even hard to register. Our country seems to abdicate from the primary function of Polishization of Ukrainian children in Polish schools, and society renounces its cultural heritage, which has become a symbol, determined by what identity-orientedally-minded “in Ukraine”.

20. Even successful culture does not solve the problem of many national minorities

Even successful culture will not solve the problem of a large national number and the resulting problems, as evidenced, for example, by Americanized hair or Irish people in the United States. frequently culturally close to cultural Anglo-Saxons take political action for the erstwhile homelands of their ancestors resulting from the still-living cultural identity and story of origin, which despite the acculture and many years of operation in American society have not been broken.

21. National State as value

According to the basic doctrine of nationalism, each nation should have the full ability to decide about itself, namely self-regulation, having its own, interior rights and ways of acting, listening only to its interior voice. The national state is, of course, the tool essential to implement these assumptions. A well organized, large number always makes it difficult. Giving the position of citizens to people of Ukrainian nationality, to which, under the conditions of long-term residence in the territory of the Republic of Poland, it will make our country more or little a hostage of another nation. In terms of liberal democracy, where the largest political parties will besides become hostages of minorities, a situation in which part of the structures of the state, created for us by our ancestors, will be inevitable. Aliens pursuing the interests of their own community.

22. Ukrainians can't save our demography.

Mass immigration from Ukraine carries many risks and small benefits. 1 of the biggest ones is the emergence of a strong number that is the efficient lobby of the neighbouring country in our territory and a disturbance of public peace through cultural conflicts in schools, universities, workplaces, which are caused by different visions of the past of both nations. The expected benefit of the abrupt demographic injection is to improve the Polish pension system. Nothing more wrong. Ukrainians are a nation of little children than Poles, so saving pensioners' pension strategy with them is just as good an thought as paying out debt instalments by enlisting others.

23. Poland should do everything to guarantee that refugees return to their homes after the war

The task of Poland after the end of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is to do everything so that refugees from Ukraine can calmly and efficiently return to their country to aid reconstruct it to those who performed heroic deeds during the war. Assimilation will fail, and peaceful maintenance of specified a large diaspora as we know from past will be impossible. Realism besides tells us to accept that not all refugees will return to Ukraine. They should be subjected at least to assimilation attempts which have not yet been undertaken. Both the successive governments of Poland and Ukraine should care about the fast return of refugees to their homeland.

24. Polish-Ukrainian Friendship

According to president Volodymyr Zelenski, there will be a field of cooperation on this level. Polish-Ukrainian friendship, which has been fulfilled since the beginning of the war, will be the more lasting, the more efficiently the Ukrainians can return to their homes after the happy end of the war struggles, which we want them with all our heart.

THE HEAD BOARD OF THE YOUTH OF ALL POLAND