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100th Anniversary of the Polish-Ukrainian Brotherhood in Arms in the Fight against the Bolsheviks
On August 14, 2020, for the first time in history, at the Orthodox Cemetery in Warsaw's Wola district, at the quarters where soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic are buried, who fought alongside Poles in 1920, representatives of the Polish state authorities and the highest representatives of Ukraine in Poland met to to commemorate the Polish-Ukrainian brotherhood in arms against the Bolshevik onslaught.
The ceremony was organized by the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression together with the Embassy of Ukraine in Poland as part of the Centennial of the Battle of Warsaw, to commemorate the conclusion of the historic Polish-Ukrainian Piłsudski-Petliura alliance, known as the Warsaw Agreement, which opened a new, important chapter of the Polish-Bolshevik war.
In front of the monument "Soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic to the Defenders of Ukraine and Poland" in the officers' headquarters of the Orthodox Cemetery in Wola, representatives of the Polish state authorities, headed by the Deputy Speaker of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland Małgorzata Gosiewska, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jan Ardanowski, Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Wojciech and Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Paweł Szrot, as well as representatives of uniformed services and three military ordinariates - Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical. The Ukrainian side was represented by the Ukrainian ambassador to Poland, Andriy Deszczyca, and the defense attaché, General Yuriy Pavlov, together with the employees of the embassy.
- Today we are united by gratitude and remembrance to those who, 100 years ago, fought shoulder to shoulder with the overwhelming forces of Bolshevik Russia, the forces that brought destruction to Poland, Ukraine and Europe. Today we stand over the graves of the soldiers of Ataman Symon Petliura to pay tribute to them that back then, in 1920, we were united so strongly in the face of the threat of Soviet Russia, the Head of the Office for Veterans and Victims of Oppression addressed the gathered people.
- Marshal Józef Piłsudski and the ataman Symon Petliura perfectly diagnosed what the threat from the east is. They understood that if a dam was not put together in the face of the Soviet plans to conquer Ukraine and Poland, all of Europe would be drowned in a sea of blood. And that is why the soldiers of the Commonwealth and the soldiers of Ukraine, arm in arm, fought this Bolshevik plague from the spring of 1920, which wanted to conquer Ukraine, Poland and Europe, as far as Gibraltar. Had it not been for the efforts of Marshal Józef Piłsudski and ataman Symon Petliura, allied with the Polish Army, Ukraine, Poland and Europe would have looked different for 100 years. And we are deeply convinced that we would not stand in this place and pay tribute to those to whom we owe our freedom - said Jan Józef Kasprzyk, Head of UdSKiOR
- We must build contemporary and future relations on the basis of good examples from the past, in the name of good and brotherhood of both nations - Ukrainian and Polish. One such great bridge of the past is the common brotherhood of arms of 1920. Let us refer to this great alliance! - Minister Kasprzyk appealed.
After the speeches of the organizers of the ceremony, the clergy of three denominations said a common prayer for the souls of fallen and deceased Ukrainian soldiers resting in the Orthodox Cemetery in Wola, after which the Memorial Appeal was read and a volley of honor was fired.
The culmination of the ceremony was the laying of wreaths and bouquets of flowers in front of the Monuments to "Soldiers of the Ukrainian People's Republic to the Defenders of Ukraine and Poland", both in the officers 'quarters and the soldiers' quarters of the Wolska necropolis. Gen. Marko Bezruczka, commander of the 6th Sicz Rifle Division of the Ukrainian People's Republic, commander of the defense of Zamość against the overwhelming forces of the 1st Cavalry Army of Siemon Budyonny, was especially paid tribute. Flowers on the General's grave were laid by Minister Kasprzyk, Ambassador Deszczyca and members of the heroic Officer's family, who came to Poland especially for this ceremony.
Then Polish scouts and their colleagues from the Ukrainian scouting organization Płast lit candles in front of the monuments symbolizing the "flame of brotherhood" between Ukrainian and Polish soldiers fighting side by side with the Bolshevik invasion in 1920.
It was a symbolic beginning of the action commemorating the brotherhood of arms between Ukrainian and Polish soldiers, entitled "Flame of Brotherhood", during which in the evening, Polish scouts and Ukrainian plasters and members of local communities lit candles - "flames of brotherhood" in several dozen places in Poland and Ukraine, where Ukrainian soldiers are buried, who, together with the Polish Army, defended our country before the Red Army.