Moscow, July 19, 2016
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has criticized Defense Minister of Poland Anthony Macherevich for his statement about the Volyn tragedy, reports Interfax Religion. Also called the Volyn Massacre, the tragedy began in March 1943 and reached its peak in July 1943. 100,000 or more Poles were brutally murdered and their villages wiped of the face of the earth by the UPA—the Ukrainian Patriotic Army, which had been trained by Nazi officers and cultivated in the spirit of a nationalism that justifies genocide.
As was reported, Macherevich stated that the USSR is guilty of the Volyn tragedy in 1943. He also called Ukrainian nationalists committed the genocide "a Russian instrument."
"Such statements have usually been made by political fringe groups and not by people in authority. In this case, historical memory has been sacrificed for the sake of falsely interpreted political goals. Such falsification is not harmless as entire nations and states are demonized this way, which leads to growing tensions," head of the FJCR Public Relations Department Borukh Gorin was quoted as saying by his press service.
According to Gorin, this attitude should be interpreted as "historical revisionism widely spread and a shameful phenomenon in the countries of Eastern Europe."
"We can often see examples of historical revisionism of anti-semitic character referring to the Holocaust tragedy, and here there is an attempt to re-write history with a Russophobe deviation," the FJCR speaker said.
