The Ukrainian President caused outrage by renaming an army unit after a paramilitary group which massacred Poles in WWII. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The trick is, that the UPA genocides are ommitted in Ukrainian history lessons, same as Polish genocides against Ukrainians, Germans, annexation of Czechoslovakia and eastern slavery are in Polish history lessons. A lot of people really do not know, and so UPA are treated as some lovely independence fighters, which maybe some of them might have been, when not collaborating with the Nazis. OFC Zepensky should have known better, as should Nawrocki use this as leverage in whatever negotiations rather than a useless symbolic spat, which only Russian propaganda benefits from.
Nawrocki and the entire PiS are keen to side with Russia as is Targowica’s custom.
That’s fair, but I was referring more to Nawrocki’s statement that this does not and will not impact Polish support of Ukrainian defence and cooperation with NATO allies.
No its not.
The trick is, that the UPA genocides are ommitted in Ukrainian history lessons, same as Polish genocides against Ukrainians, Germans, annexation of Czechoslovakia and eastern slavery are in Polish history lessons. A lot of people really do not know, and so UPA are treated as some lovely independence fighters, which maybe some of them might have been, when not collaborating with the Nazis. OFC Zepensky should have known better, as should Nawrocki use this as leverage in whatever negotiations rather than a useless symbolic spat, which only Russian propaganda benefits from.
Nawrocki and the entire PiS are keen to side with Russia as is Targowica’s custom.
edit: typo
That’s fair, but I was referring more to Nawrocki’s statement that this does not and will not impact Polish support of Ukrainian defence and cooperation with NATO allies.