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"Mr President, genocide is defined in international law, and that definition is based on the UN Convention. As a Pole – a citizen of a country afflicted by genocide – I believe that this definition should be expanded by two elements.
It should stress that, as a rule, the purpose of genocide is the liquidation of the feeling of national identity, through the extermination of the intellectual and cultural elites. Poland may serve as an example. During World War II the Germans and the Russians murdered there, in the first instance, the intelligentsia, the professors, the clergy. Secondly consideration should be given to how to punish under international law historical lies, false propaganda, and refusal to acknowledge guilt about genocide. An example here is the attitude of Russia in relation to Stalinist crimes, and also towards the Katyń massacre.
Poland supports the admission of Ukraine to the European Union. However, so that history should not divide but unite, we believe that Ukraine should acknowledge the crimes committed against the Poles and the Jews during World War II – when more than 150 thousands of people died.
The European Union should be an organisation which provides an example of uncompromising fight against genocide to the whole world. This is why, as politicians elected by nations, we should condemn communism as a criminal ideology and a criminal system."@en1
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