Another Polish-Ukrainian “breakthrough”

After a joint gathering of the heads of the Polish and Ukrainian MFA, the avalanche's comments flooded the media, announcing the alleged breakthrough, on the exhumation of victims of the Volyn massacre. Exalted ladies and touched gentlemen were surpassing each another in voices specified as: “For this minute there were generations of Poles and Poles waiting.”

"This is what effective diplomacy looks like". "We are solving a case present that the earlier governments have failed to close", "This shows that it is not empty slogans but real actions that matter". “At last we will be able to commemorate the victims of the Volyn massacre with dignity.” "We've had a breakthrough." The cask of delight looks grotesque in the background of Anton Drobowycz's message – the head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, who, 48 hours after the gathering of ministers, said that "Ukraine will examine itself, find the burial place and the circumstances of the victims of the Volyn tragedy, and then carry out the exhumation, and the corresponding work will be carried out next year". The Ukrainian IPN has already reported that, in the event of receiving the essential proposals from Polish citizens on the location of possible locations of the victims of the Volyn massacre, Ukrainians can invitation the Polish side “as an observer”.

It was added that, by leaning towards the decision to go out against the interests of Polish citizens, the Institute "do this by way of exception". The first private individual to submit an appropriate application indicating the place of genocide was Karolina Romanowska, who lost 18 members of her household in the village of Ugły, in the erstwhile Volyn Voivodeship as a consequence of the bander's attack. They lie at the bottom of death along with 100 another Poles residents of this village. In November of that year Mrs. Romanowska received a negative reply. Ministerial officials called for compliance with Ukrainian regulations and stated that historical accuracy and political tensions must be avoided. most likely in the interests of avoiding political tensions Ukrainians emptied wells from buried Polish bones indicated by local population and inactive surviving in Poland residents of those areas a fewer years earlier.

When Drobowycz says that “Ukraine will examine itself”, “it will establish a burial place” for “the surroundingness of death”, and “it will only then carry out an exhumation” means that Poles will be able to participate in any part of the work indicated by the hosts, but in “the function of observers”. It cannot be excluded that erstwhile they arrive at the designated place and time for the crime scene, the activities will be almost completed in accordance with the Ukrainian procedures and provisions contained in the Law on the Legal position and the commemoration of fighters for Ukrainian independency in the 20th century.

Witold Juras wrote in Oneta that the words of Drobowych may propose a simple conclusion of Kiev: since Polish politicians are incapable to draw conclusions and declare a "breakthrough" 2 months after the erstwhile one, this 1 can be laid to the grave not after 8 weeks, but after 48 hours. This is due to the fact that unfortunately Polish journalists and politicians behave either unprofessionally or highly naively. Juras emphasizes that specified fake concessions and false promises have already been made by the Ukrainian authorities, that it is hard to believe that Poles are as infantile as each other, one more time announcing success and a breakthrough, while apart from words, nothing has happened yet. And it won't.

Leszek Miller, ‘X’

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