ANDRIY TARASENKO'S BRIEF COMMENT ON THE UKRAINIAN-POLISH HISTORICAL CONFLICT

Recently, being interviewed by a Polish journalist we discussed the Volyn tragedy issue, which has become one of the ground for the draft law. My only thesis he couldn't argue with was when I reminded the cafts of cooperation between the Armia Krajowa, other Polish guerila units and the UPA in the afterwar period. The conclusion that I had formed is: "Do you think that the Polish underground could go on this, knowing that the Ukrainian insurgents were engaged in genocide of Poles?"

Indeed, inter-ethnic conflicts did took place in Volhynia (so as in Peremishl, Kholm, etc. - ed. note), albeit on a smaller scale than we hear from abroad. But the form of "genocide by the hands of Ukrainian nationalists" they have obtained quite recently. As we see, modern Warsaw keeps following its precedors' anti-Ukrainian policy. 

- Andriy Tarasenko, the Pravyi Sector political wing head.

Recall, on February 6 the President of Poland signed the law on Institution of National Remembrance, which, among other one-sidedly accuses Ukrainians of the Ukrainian-Polish conflict. The Ukrainian historians have already expressed disturbanse on the matter, assuming the law can erect new obstacles on the way of Ukrainian-Polish historical dialogue and mutual understanding. At the same time the populist group in the Kukiz15 political party have hastened to call the law "anti-banderite" - refering to own interpretation of the Ukrainian nationalist ideology. An opinion is dwelling among some Polish politologists that in such way some populist MPs are trying to play on "historical sentiments" around the Polish part of victims of the Ukraine-Polish conflict to vin a part of voters from the rulling PiS party.

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