Fresh Start For Poles And Ukrainians
‘The official opening ceremony of the cemetery in Lviv, today’s Ukraine, of young Polish freedom fighters who lost their lives in the Polish-Ukrainian war of 1918 closes a painful period of bilateral relations’, says Jan Malicki, head of the East European Study Centre.
The cemetery, for years a bone of contention in Polish-Ukrainian relations, was opened after long talks at parliamentary and presidential levels on the wording of inscriptions and other symbols. In the opinion of Jan Malicki the event will help normalise Polish-Ukrainian relations and oblige Poland to take more care about neglected Ukrainian graves in Poland.