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Tadeusz Hołówko (
1889 -
1931), codename
Kirgiz, was a politician in the
inter-war Poland, an active diplomat and an author of many articles and books.
He was most notable for his moderate stance on the "Ukrainian problem" faced by the
Polish government, which due to its
nationalist policies in the largely
Ukrainian and
Belarusian populated
eastern territories faced increasing tension in those regions. Despite, or perhaps because of being a relative moderate in the policies towards the Ukrainian population, and supporter of peaceful cooperation, he was
assassinated in 1931 by two members from the radical
Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Biography
Born on 17 September in Semipalatinsk,
Russian Empire (now
Semey,
Kazakhstan), he became a close coworker of
Józef Piłsudski, first in
Polish Socialist Party (PPS), later in the
Polish Military Organization (POW) and finally in the pro-
Sanacja Bezpartyjny Blok Współpracy z Rządem (BBWR) party and Polish government (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). In 1918 he became a vice-minister in the first government of
Second Polish Republic led by
prime minister Ignacy Daszyński.
One of the organizers of POW and BBWR, he was a vicepresident and chief ideologist of BBWR in the
Second Polish Republic. From 1930 he was a deputy of the Polish parliament (
Sejm); he advocated increasing the presidential and executive powers and decreasing powers of the Sejm. He is credited by many English and Polish authors for advocating and improving the relations with Poland's ethnic minorities, chiefly the Ukrainians and Belarusians. However, certain Ukrainian authors consider otherwise pointing out his opposition to granting the autonomy to Ukrainian regions and even to creation of the Ukrainian university in
Galicia and to his efforts aimed at convincing the Ukrainian leaders to recall their complaints about
pacification submitted to the
League of Nations. Modern research however notes he was supportive of giving wide autonomy to the minorities for example, by advocating for using
Belarusian language in schools. but their problems were marginalized by the Polish government, whose heavy-handed policies were only serving to antagonize the Ukrainian population. Eventually the extremists among Ukrainians started sabotage and assassinations campaign and Polish government responded with further respressions. Hołówko was one of the few who tried to deal with that problem with negotiations and compromise; he mediated between willing Polish and Ukrainian politicians and proposed various plans to solve the tensions, from releasing Ukrainians prisoners and granting the minorities more rights, was part of the
vicious spiral Polish government's brutal reining in on its ethnically Ukrainian subjects (the
pacification campaign)
"Independence of Poland is inconcivable without independent Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Ukraine and Belarus. Independence of Poland is only one of many examples of a process seen throughout modern Europe - freeing of nations from political slavery. If Poland is alone, if other countries created on the ruins of Russian Empire will fall - dark will be Poland's future."
..."such policies [needsto be used] that ethnic minorities would feel good in Poland, not attempting to break away from Polish state, but on the opposite, they'd see such a break away as a defeat. [...] [Thus] those national movements must be supported [...] Therefore that population which would have complete freedom within borders of the Republic wouldn't be loured by Russia."Further Information
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