JohninMK Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:51 pm
Seems like the Rada might have done it again. Blind hatred of Russia causing them to shoot themselves in the foot.
Yuriy Shukhevych, lawmaker and son of Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader and former SS officer Roman Shukhevych, warned that in voting to the bill, Ukrainian lawmakers had opened a Pandora's Box for Warsaw "to consider our western territories as Polish lands." "Laugh you clowns! Do you realize what you have voted for?" the lawmaker grumbled, commenting on the declaration a day after it passed.
The declaration has since been approved by the Polish parliament, and is slated for approval by Lithuania's as well.
In theory, the lawmaker is correct. Western Ukrainian territories, including Bukovina, Transcarpathia and South Bessarabia, were annexed into Soviet Ukraine between 1939-1940 in the run-up to the Great Patriotic War. Accordingly, the declaration delegitimizes Kiev's claims on these territories.
Commenting on this "theater of the absurd" in an article for PolitRussia, contributor Svyatoslav Knyazev suggested that while he could at least comprehend Poland's motivations for the bill (including Warsaw's never-ending quarrel with Moscow) he simply could not wrap his head around what lawmakers in Kiev were thinking.
Warsaw, he recalled, has reasons to resent the Soviet annexation, and Poland's post-war occupation. But Kiev, which gained vast amounts of territory from the territorial revisionism of 1939-1940 and 1945, has effectively delegitimized its own claims to its own western territories by signing on to the declaration. "The declaration adopted by the Rada is not just a shameful act of political madness," Knyazev wrote. "It is a kind of 'voluntary surrender', which Warsaw can only enthusiastically embrace. Poland no longer has any need to prove the legitimacy of a claim to the city of Lvov; Ukrainian authorities themselves have effectively recognized it."
Read more: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201610231046643081-kiev-warsaw-territorial-claims-declaration-implications/
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