Is it true that the Polish questionnaire for Ukrainian citizens contains questions about Bandera and Volyn massacre?

A photo of the questionnaire for Ukrainian citizens who want to receive the Polish National Registration Number Pesel spread on the network. In this questionnaire, Ukrainian applicants allegedly ask about their attitude to Stepan Bandera and the Volyn massacre. We checked the authenticity of this document.

Photo of the Pesel questionnaire appeared on social networks "VKontakte", Facebook, Telegramas well as in several Russian Media. According to the picture, the last two points of the questionnaire for Ukrainian citizens look like this: "Do you think Stepan Bandera is a terrorist?" And "I recognize the responsibility of Ukrainian nationalists for the Poles Genocide during the Volyn massacre." "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in its article It adds that if at least one of the questions to answer “no”, then the applicant will be refused social and medical care in Poland, and if “yes” to answer, then the owner of Pesel will have problems in Ukraine.

Pesel (Polish. Powszekhny Elektroniczny System Ewidencji Ludnoš) - the identification number of a Poland citizen, which can be compared with Russian SNILS. The presence of Pesel is mandatory for both Poles and temporarily living citizens of other countries who have been in Poland for more than two months. Pesel is necessary, for example, for the registration of insurance, social assistance, obtaining medical services, a driver’s license, access to the education and registration system of private business in Poland.

Since March 16, 2022, in connection with the military operations in Ukraine, Ukrainian refugees in Poland got the opportunity to apply for them to assign Pesel by Simplified scheme. For this, the Polish government Developed A separate questionnaire in Ukrainian. Internet users and the media claim that they write about this questionnaire. If you believe the attached pictures, when filling out the form, you need to indicate personal data, the date of entry into Poland and answer “yes/no” to questions about the Bandera and the Volyn massacre.

Many users of social networks write that in this way the Polish government, tired of the arrogance of Ukrainian refugees, allegedly decided to put them in place: “Refugees from Ukraine shocked the Poles so much with their rudeness that they created a separate Pesel with the status of the UKR”, “when the lead of representatives of the fraternal people reached the whole district. In Poland, they continue to subtly hint the Ukrainians where their place in this country, "" Poles troll the Svidomos. Such a questionnaire needs to be filled with Ukrainian refugees to get Pesel. Just imagine how some bomb! "

According to some users, such “tricky” questions of the questionnaire should put the Ukrainians in a difficult position, forcing them to choose between Polish registration and commitment to nationalist views. “Komsomolskaya Pravda” writes: “And now what will you order Ukrainian refugees? If in Ukraine even in the songs they sing that “our dad is our Bandera” ... You will answer that Bandera’s father is a native and Ukrainian saint, the Poles will refuse asylum and benefits, and they can put it out of the country. You will answer that you recognize him with a terrorist, they will remember at home if you have to be there. ” Thus, the question of Bandera puts the Ukrainians before the choice: “Father or not dad?”, The author of the article in “KP” argues.

The answer to the second question - “Do you admit the guilt of Ukrainian nationalists in the Poles genocide during the Volyn massacre?” - Allegedly should become a dilemma for Ukrainian refugees who deny the Genocide of the Poles in Volyn during the Second World War. Then the detachments of Ukrainian nationalists attacked a dozen Polish settlements in the West of modern Ukraine. By data The Polish Institute of National Memory (Inp), in 1943-1945, during the Volyn massacre, about 100,000 Poles died. Based on the collected documents, the Inp claims that it was antipolis ethnic cleaning, planned and conducted by the organization of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN (b), Bandera movement) and the Ukrainian rebel army (UPA). Polish and Ukrainian historians often Dissive In the interpretation of the Volyn massacre and in the assessment of the number of victims. Some Ukrainian researchers talk about the patriotic motives of the UPA.

Nevertheless, several details are forced to doubt the authenticity of the Polish questionnaire with provocative issues published on social networks. Real questionnaire Pesel for Ukrainian citizens is easy to find on the website of the Polish government. There is also Video Instructions According to the application, where you can also see forms. The questionnaire from social networks differs from the original by several details. Firstly, a real questionnaire consists of two pages, and a fake one-of one. Secondly, in this questionnaire, in addition to personal data, there are sections with questions about young children and contact details, a section for photography and signature of the applicant and a field for notes of an official. In a fake questionnaire, immediately after personal data there are questions about Bandera and Volyn, and then a field for notes.

Questionnaire from the website of the Government of Poland (left) and questionnaire From social networks (right)

The earliest photo of the fake questionnaire we managed to find in publications Group "Look at Peter!" For July 21. This post was picked up by others Petersburg Communities. But the largest number of views and comments gained publications of groups “Polite people | Army | Russia", "Patriots of Russia", "I am for Putin / Zov" And “Great Rus'! Russians do not give up! ". Telegram-fast The leading television channel "Russia 1" Olga Skabeeva with the image of a fake Polish questionnaire scored more than 100,000 views.

Thus, a photo of the questionnaire, published by users of social networks, has little to do with a real questionnaire for obtaining Pesel. And questions about the attitude of Ukrainian applicants towards Stepan Bandera and the Volyn massacre, apparently, were added with the help of a graphic editor.

Image on the cover: "VKontakte"

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