波蘭總統：烏克蘭承認吧

波蘭總統：烏克蘭承認吧 

2022-07-12 21:34

https://www.sohu.com/a/566799194_162522?

路透社7月12日報道，波蘭總統安傑伊·杜達周一發出呼籲稱，盡管基輔和華沙如今在俄烏衝突期間共同反對俄羅斯，但烏克蘭政府應該承認烏民族主義者在二戰期間屠殺了10萬多名波蘭人。

         

杜達的此番講話是在波蘭沃裏尼亞大屠殺79周年紀念日當天發表的，1943年波蘭的沃裏尼亞在納粹德國占領之下。路透社稱，在兩國關係因俄烏衝突而拉近之際，他的此番言論明確提醒人們，華沙和基輔之間存在著複雜的曆史關係。

報道提到，波蘭議會此前認定，在1943年至1945年期間，據信與納粹德國合作的斯捷潘·班傑拉（Stepan Bandera）領導下的烏克蘭民族主義者組織針對波蘭人實施的殺戮帶有種族滅絕的成分。

但烏克蘭政府不接受這種說法，並經常將沃裏尼亞大屠殺事件認定為波蘭和烏克蘭衝突的一部分。也有波蘭曆史學家認為，多達1.2萬名烏克蘭人也在波蘭的報複行動中喪生。

杜達周一在沃裏尼亞大屠殺紀念儀式上說，無論如何都必須“堅定而明確地說出”有關1944年到1945年在加利西亞東部發生的大屠殺和其他類似事件的真相，並呼籲基輔當局承認烏克蘭民族主義者針對波蘭人的種族清洗。

“這不是報複，也不是為了任何報複。在這一點上，沒有比我們當下這個時期更好的證據了，”杜達說，他指的是兩國目前的反俄合作。

報道稱，基輔方麵沒有立即對杜達的言論作出回應，但路透社推測，在一些烏克蘭圈子中，杜達有關討論曆史真相的此番言論可能被認為“不合時宜”，即符合俄方所稱的烏克蘭是一個需要“去納粹化”的國家的說法，而“去納粹化”是俄羅斯對烏克蘭采取特別軍事行動的既定目標之一。

Poland asks Ukraine to confront dark past despite common front against Moscow

Reuters July 11, 20221

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-asks-ukraine-confront-dark-past-despite-common-front-against-moscow-2022-07-11/

 

Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during a news conference in Szypliszki, Poland July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

 

WARSAW, July 11 (Reuters) - Poland's president on Monday called for Ukraine to admit what he called the shameful truth about how Ukrainian nationalists had massacred over 100,000 Poles during World War Two, despite Kyiv and Warsaw's common front against Russia now.

The remarks by Andrzej Duda were made on the 79th anniversary of the 1943 killings in Volhynia in Nazi-occupied Poland and were a pointed reminder of the complex historical ties between Warsaw and Kyiv at a time when Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought the two neighbours closer together.

Poland has opened its doors to Ukrainian refugees and Duda has allowed his country to be used as a logistics hub to keep Ukraine supplied as it fights an exhausting war of attrition against Russia.

But at a Warsaw ceremony on Monday, Duda said that the truth about the wartime massacres and others like it in Eastern Galicia from 1944-45 had to be “firmly and clearly stated” regardless and called on Kyiv to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing of Poles by Ukrainian nationalist militias.

“It was not about and is not about revenge, about any retaliation. There is no better proof of this than the time we have now,” Duda said, referring to the two countries' current cooperation against Russia.

The issue was complex for Ukrainians, he said, since some regarded the same militias as heroes for the resistance they mounted against the Soviet Union and as symbols of Kyiv's painful struggle for independence from Moscow.

"Those who we know were murderers were also heroes for Ukraine, at other times and with a different enemy, and often died at the hands of the Soviets, fighting with deep faith for an independent, free Ukraine," said Duda.

There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine to Duda's comments, but his remarks are likely to be seen as ill-timed in some Ukrainian circles who view attempts to discuss such events now as part of a Russian-inspired attempt to falsely cast Ukraine as a country in need of de-Nazifying, one of the stated aims of what Russia calls its special military operation.

The Polish parliament has said that the murders, carried out between 1943 and 1945 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists under the leadership of Stepan Bandera, bore elements of genocide.

Ukraine has not accepted that assertion and often refers to the Volhynia events as part of a conflict between Poland and Ukraine which affected both nations.

Polish historians say that up to 12,000 Ukrainians were also killed in Polish retaliatory operations.