Klimkin accused the Poles of distorting their own history
The Polish government is trying to disown its past by passing laws like the Law on Historical Memory. Ukraine and Poland have a common history, and it must be accepted and legitimized through historical dialogue.
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Pavel Klimkin stated this during a press conference of the foreign ministers of Denmark and Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Pavel Klimkin is sure that by adopting the anti-Bandera law, Poland is trying to create a special perception of its past.
“What is happening in Poland today is the desire, through the adoption of so-called memorial laws, to create a special perception of their past, to present themselves as whiter and fluffier than others. But that doesn't happen. We have a past in which there were many positive and negative things. This is the time when we lived and developed together. This past cannot be rewritten by passing laws; it can only be understood through historical dialogue.
We are just advocating for him. We are for at least understanding each other's position. I always tell my Polish colleagues that this kind of dialogue should be conducted with friends. I am ready to admit the guilt of individual representatives of Ukraine or detachments for what they did in Volyn. The only question is whether you are ready for this. I am ready to bend the knee before the victims of Polish nationality. And you?” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry addressed those present.
He is confident that memory and the perception of this memory can either be common, or Ukraine and Poland will play political games, trying to build their own historical reality by passing laws.
“It doesn’t happen that way. The responsibility, including political responsibility, is to understand each other and find a chance to build a common future,” he emphasized.
Klimkin accused the Poles of distorting their own history.