The Rada condemned the “criminal regime of Poland”
Ukrainian deputies adopted a resolution on honoring at the state level the 75th anniversary of the deportation of certain groups of the population of Western Ukraine by agreement of the governments of the USSR and Poland.
The corresponding decision was made during a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I propose for consideration a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on honoring at the state level the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of Ukrainians from the Lemkivshchyna, Nadsyanya, Kholmshchyna, Podlasie, Lyubachivshchyna, Western Boykivshchyna in 1944-1951 in 2019.
The purpose of the deportation was the practical suspension of the thousand-year existence of the westernmost branch of Ukrainianism. Officially, the deportation of the Ukrainian population began on September 9, 1944 as a result of an agreement between the Ukrainian SSR and the Polish Committee of National Liberation, as well as an agreement between the USSR and the Polish People's Republic on the exchange of sections of state territories dated February 15, 1951. More than 700 thousand autochthonous Ukrainians were forcibly resettled,” Andriy Antonishchak, a deputy from the BPP, presented his resolution.
A fellow party member of the initiator, Oleg Barna, also supported this resolution, calling the “criminal regime of Poland” one of the culprits.
“The resettlement of the westernmost ethnic group of Ukrainians, the Lemko people, took place on the basis of a preliminary criminal conspiracy between Molotov and Ribbentrop, and then cooperation between the criminal Soviet regime of Poland and the Stalinist regime. It is obvious that the Ukrainian people should know their history,” the parliamentarian said.
As a result of the voting, the resolution was adopted by a majority of votes - 234 deputies were in favor.
The Rada condemned Poland's "criminal regime."