Ukraine gives Poland evidence of Soviet repressions against Polish people
Ukraine gave about sixty thousand pages of documents proving Soviet repressions against the Polish people in 1930 to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance or INR, Polish Radio reports.
According to INR head Marzena Kruk, the materials are now being studied and access to them will be open early next year.
"For the first time we have access to such materials that are no longer separate orders or reports on carrying out Polish operations. We are getting to the so-called kernel, to certain cases, histories of certain people," Kruk said.
These materials were provided to the Institute of National Remembrance after the agreement was signed between the INR and Ukrainian public regional record offices in Odessa, Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi.
The Head of the public regional record service in Khmelnytskyi, Volodymyr Baidych stressed that there are over twenty-five thousand documents related to the tragic fate of the Polish people in the public record office, and the process of disclosing them has just begun for Poland.
He expressed hope that soon the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine will provide the next ten thousand pages of documents that have never been seen before.
Earlier, the Polish Senate adopted the regulation commemorating the 85th anniversary of Holodomor, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The document was supported by 78 Polish Senators. No one voted against it or abstained. Ten years ago Poland recognized Holodomor as the genocide of Ukrainian people.