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Kyiv's parliament marks Polish deportations anniversary
Summary
A parliamentary resolution on 8 November 2018 turned a 1944–1951 episode into a matter of state commemoration.
What did Ukraine's parliament decide on 8 November 2018? The Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution on marking, at state level, the 75th anniversary of the start of the deportation of Ukrainians from Poland in 1944–1951.
The decision gave the commemoration official standing, placing the memory of the deportations among the events the state itself formally observes.
The vote came days after another act of state-level diplomacy. On 3 November 2018, President Petro Poroshenko signed a cooperation agreement with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. Together, the two items show Kyiv engaged on matters of history and church affairs within the same week.
The resolution itself concerned remembrance. By formally recognising the anniversary, the Rada committed the state to mark it, and it did so by naming the period of the deportations, 1944–1951, in the text of its decision.
