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Ukraine's MP's might recognize Polish State's actions in 1991-51 as genocide

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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, belonging to Rada Deputy Oleg Musiy ,a social activist during the Euromaidan revolution, came in response to a recent decision of the Polish parliament to recognize nationalist Ukrainian organizations against the Poles in eastern parts of the country  in 1943-1944 to be an act of genocide. On July 22, the Polish Parliament decided to call July 11 as the Day of Memory for the Poles who felt victim to those acts.   On this day 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 to cleanse the territory from non-Ukrainians. Tensions concerning mutual actions of Poles and Ukrainians during WWII are still a main obstacle in bilateral relations of the countries.        

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