Sends him friendship and eternal union

The day of the submission to the Verkhovna Rada of the project on a civil union between Poland and Ukraine was chosen extremely well.

On July 11, Poles celebrate the anniversary of the Volyn massacre.

In 1943, the population of

(mostly Poles, although Jews and Russians who survived were exterminated) was beaten by OUN-UPA * fighters.

Along with the number of victims - about 100 thousand - the cruelty of the massacre is also striking.

If the German genocidal actions were distinguished rather by composure in destruction (the main thing is efficiency, which is why they talk about the death industry), then the heroes of Ukraine destroyed the elderly, women and small children with some kind of hellish ingenuity, reveling in their cruelty and the suffering of the victims.

In memory of those tortured by Bandera demons, the Poles erected a monument, the inscription on which reads: "If I forget about them, You, God in heaven, forget about me."

And on this rainy day, a draft law appeared that equalizes the civil rights of citizens of Ukraine and Poland: “Citizens of the Republic of Poland during their stay on the territory of Ukraine have the right to employment without permission to use the labor of foreigners and stateless persons, to receive education on an equal basis with citizens of Ukraine, including at the expense of the state or local budget, social payments in accordance with the legislation of Ukraine.

The Poles will be able to count on social protection, including the right to security in case of complete, partial or temporary disability, breadwinner, unemployment, they will be able to conduct business on the same conditions as the Ukrainians.”

That is, integration in the spirit of the Russian-Belarusian union, or even in the spirit of the European Union in its best times.

Usually, however, such oblivion of past troubles and a look forward "in the hope of glory and goodness" is accompanied by formal acts of reconciliation.

The dead cannot be resurrected, but an apology is desirable (see the kneeling Chancellor Willy Brandt in Warsaw, etc).

The Polish leadership is in a difficult position.

Cancel the words "If I forget about them ..." is not possible.

Therefore, it remains to inspire Kyiv that it would be necessary to bring, if not repentance, then at least a formal apology.

Polish President Duda even saw in the date of the introduction of the bill such a signal from Kyiv.

At the same time, wishing to enter into the position of the Kyiv brothers, he explained that "for Ukrainians this is a difficult topic, because it is very shameful."

But signs that Ukrainian politicians are feeling shame are hard to find.

When in 2016 the lower house of the Polish parliament adopted a resolution recognizing July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a statement condemning this decision of the Polish Sejm.

The deputies of the Rada considered that it "endangered the political and diplomatic developments of the two countries."

Where is the shame, only Duda knows.

Countless monuments to Bandera and other monsters of nature that adorn Ukraine, torchlight processions in their honor, the demobilization chord of the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin Melnik, who declared Bandera Robin Hood, is also bad for hidden shame.

However, how to get out of this delicate situation is Duda's concern, and I, please, have a cup of

.

It is more interesting what benefits Warsaw and Kyiv hope to get from the civil union.

Equating Poles with Ukrainians in terms of social rights sounds loud, but benefits, pensions, health insurance, education are already in Ukraine, to put it mildly, not in the best condition, and further, most likely, it will be even worse.

Against this background, the non-problematic Rzeczpospolita looks like a social paradise.

Unless abortions in Ukraine can be done freely, unlike Poland, but it is unlikely that everything was started solely for the sake of this.

Maybe in Warsaw they see good prospects for Polish carpetbaggers.

That was the name of the Yankee adventurers (from the carpet bags in which they carried their belongings), who flooded into the South of the United States after the end of the civil war and pretty much stormed there - just like we had effective entrepreneurs in the 1990s.

Fortunately, the policy of "reconstruction" of the South provided considerable opportunities for this.

The southerners were pushed to the sidelines, and the northerners banked.

Then it was called the "Gilded Age".

But, firstly, it is not very clear what to reconstruct in Ukraine and at whose expense, especially since its prospects are rather vague.

Secondly, the Volhynia massacre itself (and before it there were pogroms of Poles in Lvov in June 1941) was associated with the dissatisfaction of the Ukrainians with their oppressed, as the leaders of the nationalists explained to them, the situation in Pan Poland.

The idea was to respond to the Polish oppression (real or imaginary) with a monstrous massacre.

Given the revival of the Bandera spirit in today's Ukraine, the activities of effective Polish carpetbagers (after all, their predecessors in the southern states of the United States in the 70s of the 19th century also aroused complex feelings among southerners) may give rise to a desire among the heroes of Ukraine to repeat the Volyn deeds.

And the ability to soberly calculate possible consequences has never been one of the Polish virtues.

* Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" (OUN-UPA) - a Ukrainian organization recognized as extremist and banned in Russia (decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of 11/17/2014).

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.