The ultimate Council of Ukraine recognized Ukrainians displaced from Poland after planet War II as deportees. Ukrainian MP Irina Geraschenko She said: "It is the restoration of historical justice to those forcibly displaced from Zakersonia, Chełmszczyzna, Lemkowszczyzna, Podlasie and Nadsania." The Law ‘2038 D’ provides for the restoration of the rights of persons deported, including ‘material and moral compensation’ and ‘social benefits’. The test does not mention the causes of resettlement, including criminal activities of organisations specified as UPA. The first associate informed about the case in Poland Andrzej Zapalowski.
So it's all about compensation. Those persons and their families are to receive a one-off financial contribution from the Ukrainian State. The Ukrainian state has no money, so knowing the lives of Ukrainian allies in Europe, they will make up for it. Anyway, I'm curious in something else. I am afraid that in the future citing the 2038 D Act, Ukrainians will request akin compensation from Poland. They have strong diaspora and devoted allies in our homeland. This bill may be any prelude that will open the Pandora's claim box, for example, concerning Operation Vistula from 1947 to 1950.
Minister of Justice in Poland is Adam Bodnar. The father's Bodnar household are Ukrainians. And he's not the only 1 with that kind of background in this government. The Bodnars were resettled in 1947 as part of Operation “Wisła” from Rakowa village close Sanok to Earth Recovered. I remind you that already 8 years ago, Mr Bodnar, during the ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of Operation Wisła, which took place in Przemyśl, said: "The reprivatisation process has never been completed and cannot stay until there is simply a universal reprivatisation act in force to return the property to displaced people." At the same ceremony, the words came out of his mouth: “Under global law it is then a standard that, after leaving their place of residence, persons can return to their homes. This did not happen here." Operation Vistula is simply a salt in the eye of Ukrainian radicals.
1 December 2023 Marshals of the Sejm and legislature of the Republic of Poland Simon Holovnia and Margaret Kidawa-Błońska They commented on the termination of the “Operation Wisła” investigation as follows: “For us, the legitimacy of the decision is the legitimacy of the Polish citizens in the democratic communist Republic of propaganda and anti-Ukrainian narratives for years perpetuated in Poland by nationalist and cartoon environments, and especially since 2014 the propaganda of Putinian Russia (...) It is unacceptable in a democratic state to disregard civilian rights, to violate government for mercantile political needs. Condemning the decision and justification issued by the IPN on the action “Wisła” we stand on the side of all those for whom respect for fact and an simple sense of justice are important.” Among another things, they signed this letter: Tyma, Engelking, Friszke, Gebert, Holland, Libionka, Łuczywo, Illg, Leipzig-Oneszkiewicz (Agneszka), Onyszkiewicz (Wojciech), Chicken (Danuta), Motyka, Zachwatowicz-Wajda, Wuttke, Rottenberg, Szejnert, Wolff, Bujak, Kuromiya, Paczkowski, Grabowski, Singer (Rut), Halbersztadt, Gluza (Card Centre) or King (b. KPN).
The situation with compensation for displaced persons and their descendants in Poland is not as simple as the mainstream media shows it. It is not actual that nothing is happening in this direction. Even though IPN in Rzeszów has dropped its investigation into “Operation Vistula”It was those who claimed to be injured who claimed compensation. 2 years ago, a text appeared in Virtual Poland Paul Figurski and Patrick the Nightingale The 5th demolition of Poland, which has lasted for respective years, is undergoing reprivatization of public forests for Ukrainians and Lemkos. In general, it was about the transfer of Polish forests as compensation for properties lost just after planet War II as part of resettlements carried out by then Polish authorities. According to the WP text, decisions in these cases are made in bulk. There were any cancellations. The subject then evaporated from the media due to the fact that any criticism of Ukrainian claims was perceived as putinism. We do not know how the destiny of those who claimed compensation went on.
In my opinion, the full compensation action may be an effort at future sanctioning directed claims, evidently not at the address of the bankrupt Ukraine, but at Poland. Besides, not only the resettled after the war goes, but possibly besides future ones from undecided property. In my opinion, Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar, with his household experiences, will not be nonsubjective in this very crucial subject for you and the Polish people.
PS. Another interesting fact about present is how Onet learned, ending his word as president Andrzej Duda At the individual request of the head of the MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish, he presented the general promotion to Mirosław Bodnar, who is the brother of the current Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar.
Łukasz Jastrzebski
