波兰总统：乌克兰承认吧

波兰总统：乌克兰承认吧 

2022-07-12 21:34

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

路透社7月12日报道，波兰总统安杰伊·杜达周一发出呼吁称，尽管基辅和华沙如今在俄乌冲突期间共同反对俄罗斯，但乌克兰政府应该承认乌民族主义者在二战期间屠杀了10万多名波兰人。

         

杜达的此番讲话是在波兰沃里尼亚大屠杀79周年纪念日当天发表的，1943年波兰的沃里尼亚在纳粹德国占领之下。路透社称，在两国关系因俄乌冲突而拉近之际，他的此番言论明确提醒人们，华沙和基辅之间存在着复杂的历史关系。

报道提到，波兰议会此前认定，在1943年至1945年期间，据信与纳粹德国合作的斯捷潘·班杰拉（Stepan Bandera）领导下的乌克兰民族主义者组织针对波兰人实施的杀戮带有种族灭绝的成分。

但乌克兰政府不接受这种说法，并经常将沃里尼亚大屠杀事件认定为波兰和乌克兰冲突的一部分。也有波兰历史学家认为，多达1.2万名乌克兰人也在波兰的报复行动中丧生。

杜达周一在沃里尼亚大屠杀纪念仪式上说，无论如何都必须“坚定而明确地说出”有关1944年到1945年在加利西亚东部发生的大屠杀和其他类似事件的真相，并呼吁基辅当局承认乌克兰民族主义者针对波兰人的种族清洗。

“这不是报复，也不是为了任何报复。在这一点上，没有比我们当下这个时期更好的证据了，”杜达说，他指的是两国目前的反俄合作。

报道称，基辅方面没有立即对杜达的言论作出回应，但路透社推测，在一些乌克兰圈子中，杜达有关讨论历史真相的此番言论可能被认为“不合时宜”，即符合俄方所称的乌克兰是一个需要“去纳粹化”的国家的说法，而“去纳粹化”是俄罗斯对乌克兰采取特别军事行动的既定目标之一。

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.