Ukraine's MP's may recognize Polish State's actions in 1919 -51 as genocide

Ukraine's Rada has received a draft resolution acknowledging actions taken by the Polish State in the years 1919 to 1951 on Ukrainians as "a genocide atrocity." If voted for, it would enable a view of Poland and Ukraine's history as a " history of injustice, pressure and oppression" committed " systematically and consecutively by the Polish state" on the Ukrainian nation. The initiative, from Rada Deputy Oleg Musiy ,a social activist during the Euromaidan revolution, came in response to a recent decision of the Polish parliament to recognize actions taken by nationalist Ukrainian organizations against the Poles in eastern parts of the country  in 1943-1944 as an act of genocide. On July 22, the Polish Parliament decided to identify July 11 as the Day of Memory for the Poles who fell victim to those acts. On that day in 1943 the units of OUN - UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) attacked  and killed about 100,000 Poles, mainly women, children and old people, with the purpose of cleansing the territory of non-Ukrainians. Tensions concerning mutual actions of Poles and Ukrainians during WWII are still the main obstacle in the bilateral relations of the countries.