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For those who weren’t aware, “Bronze Age Pervert” (Costin Alimariu) is a Jew from Romania. His ancestors migrated to Romania in the late 19th century, after British PM Benjamin D’Israeli forced Romania to allow Jewish immigration as a precondition to allowing Romanian Unification in 1878. His grandparents lived through the pogroms of the Second World War, when the religious and national passions of the Orthodox Romanians of the Iron Guard were finally expressed against the Jewish population after almost a century of economic and political subjugation which culminated in the brutal murder of Iron Guard founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu in 1935 at the request of certain influential Romanian Jews.

This context helps to explains
why Costin Alimariu says and believes most of the things he does.

For those interested in researching this period of Romanian history further I recommend reading For My Legionaries

In the past few years, unfortunately we have seen a deterioration of relations between Poles and Ukrainians, although relations between the 2 governments remain strong.

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Poland showed solidarity and full support for Ukraine, sending weapons and leading international efforts against Russia. However the Russian invasion cut off Ukraine from many of its regular shipping routes for grain, a key part of the Ukrainian economy. Ukraine then attempted instead to sell their grain in European markets, however Polish farmers objected as the flood of Ukrainian grain would depress prices to the extent that they would have actively lost money this year and last year if unlimited access of Ukrainian grain to European markets was allowed.

The dispute left a significant impression on Ukrainians, as they saw tonnes of Ukrainian grain being blocked or thrown out of trucks by Polish farmers. One Ukrainian recalled “Polish farmers destroying the grain drenched in the blood of our people”. Much of this grain was also intended to be shipped to 3rd countries via Polish ports, not just for sale in Poland.

On the other side there is also the issues raised by the Polish side around the UPA. For those who don’t know about the historical context of the issue you can read here. There is an issue raised by the Polish side with the fact that Ukrainians have banned the exhumation of sites of the Wołyn Genocide by Poland in retaliation for Poland removing plaques from the graves of UPA fighters buried in Poland.

There was also controversy in Poland when Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andrii Melnyk said that the UPA had not engaged in mass killings of Poles and Jews in 2022. Melnyk was recently appointed ambassador to the UN.

There was also a recent controversy of equipment donated by Poland to Ukraine having UPA flags hung from them. Poles said it showed extreme ingratitude however many Ukrainians defended it, expressing the opinion that Poland sends aid to Ukraine only to weaken Russia, and not because they care about Ukraine itself.

Relations between the 2 peoples are still positive in many areas but they aren’t heading in a good direction, and it’s better that these problems are addressed earlier before more unsolvable problems develop. As we have seen with other Slavic countries such as Russia/Ukraine or Bulgaria/Macedonia, neutral slightly positive relations combined with bilateral issues can gradually develop into a hatred which is much harder to fix.

So I would like to ask Poles & Ukrainians for their suggestions on how to address these issues, and also for the opinion of people from other Slavic countries who are interested in seeing brotherly relations between all Slavs and can offer a neutral perspective.

Tell us what you think in the comments.