A future together, despite the terrible past: Poroshenko honored the victims in the Ukrainian-Polish conflict
A future together, despite the terrible past: Poroshenko honored the victims in the Ukrainian-Polish conflict
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He recalled the expression “Without a free Ukraine is not and will not be a free Poland!”.
The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko attended the opening of the Memorial to Ukrainianswho died at the hands of the Polish peasant battalions and units of the home Army in 1944.
He said this on Twitter.
Poroshenko thanked the Ukrainian community in Poland for a joint prayer for the memory of Ukrainians who were victims of the “fratricidal Polish-Ukrainian conflict in March 1944”.
“Ukrainian and Polish Nations are United by the experience of joint struggle for their freedom against the Imperial and totalitarian regimes,” stressed the President of Ukraine and reminded of the expression “Without a free Ukraine is not and will not be a free Poland!”
It is important to be at the opening of the Memorial to Ukrainians who died at the hands of the Polish peasant battalions and units of the home Army in 1944.
Our first human and Christian duty to remember the innocent victims and to make our people did not know of discord pic.twitter.com/q3Yc2vJru7
— Petro Poroshenko (@poroshenko) on 8 July 2018.
In addition, he noted that along with victories, friendship and brotherhood, trauma remains the Polish-Ukrainian conflict. “More than 70 years ago the Ukrainians were the victim of a brutal action, which made a separate unit of the Polish underground,” wrote Poroshenko.
He added that events between Ukrainians and poles during the Second world war require a thorough historical research together with Ukrainian and Polish scientists. “Our people deserve the truth. But we will not allow to politicize the pages of our history”, – he stressed.
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The Polish Sejm has amended the controversial law on the Institute of national remembrance
In the end, Poroshenko called on Ukrainians to mutual forgiveness. “Terrible page of the past of the Polish and Ukrainian people should not be identified neither for the present nor for our common European future,” he hoped the President.
We will remind, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda was on a visit to Lutskto participate in the events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Volyn tragedy. Duda has already visited the Holy mass in the Lutsk Cathedral of the Holy apostles Peter and Paul. There were prayers for the end of the war in Ukraine, for peace in the state and over the fallen people.
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