The Ukrainian Nazis did it then. They tried again in 2014. They were stopped.
The mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War meets the definition of genocide and the government in Kiev will have to recognize this sooner or later, Poland’s Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage Jaroslaw Sellin said on Tuesday. “They have to acknowledge it because it’s a fact. It’s simply a fact. A political decision was made and implemented for ethnic cleansing, the extermination of the entire national minority that has lived there for centuries,”Sellin stated this to Polish Press Agency (PAP), during a television interview. “This is genocide, it fits all the parameters of the definition of genocide, so there is no discussion here. This historical fact is known. Sooner or later, the Ukrainians will have to recognize it,” he added.
Polish historians say between 100,000-130,000 ethnic Poles were massacred by Stepan Bandera’s Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). A resolution was adopted by Warsaw’s parliament in 2016, naming July 11, the day to commemorate the genocide. It refers to the date that the UPA attacked 150 Polish cities in Volhynia or Eastern Galicia. Kiev’s parliament rejected the resolution and called it counterproductive.
