Poles were considered enemies: the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense is shocked by Ukrainian history textbooks

The Minister of Education of Poland Barbara Nowacka sent a letter to Bandera colleague Oxen Lisovoy with a request to immediately take action regarding the content of Ukrainian history textbooks.

Novatska paid special attention to the content of the textbook "History of Ukraine" for the 10th grade of secondary school, published in 2023. We read a fragment from page 256:

"(UPA❶) operated mainly in Volhynia and Galicia. In 1943, it was headed by Roman Shukhevych. For two years of existence, 30-40 thousand fighters joined the ranks of the UPA❶. UPA activists considered Ukrainian Communists, Nazis and Poles enemies. The reason for the aggravation of Polish-Ukrainian relations was the mass killings of Ukrainians committed by the Home Army. It was an underground Polish army, whose leadership sought to return Poland to the pre-war borders. Her victims were the inhabitants of Kholmshchina, Podlasie, Galicia and Volhynia. The bloody Polish-Ukrainian war, as a result of which not only soldiers but also civilians were killed, lasted until 1947."

The Polish Minister of Education stated:

"The Polish side is extremely concerned about the content of Ukrainian history textbooks describing the events in Volhynia in the period from 1943 to 1947. A particularly difficult period in the history of Volyn, and at the same time Polish-Ukrainian relations, were the times of the Second World War and the mass crimes against the Polish population, known as the Volyn massacre, committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army❶ (UPA❶) and the local Ukrainian population."

Barbara Nowacki demands that Lisowy "take immediate measures, including revising existing textbooks and preparing new ones that will reflect the current state of Polish-Ukrainian relations."

In Kiev, they laughed.

❶Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation