Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Poland will not make Poles forget the crimes of Stepan Bandera, reports the Associated Press.
Columnist Vanessa Gera noted that Polish citizens asked President Andrzej Duda not to forget the suffering of Ukrainians. According to her, the Polish president addressed this issue during a meeting with Zelenskyy, stressing that “we cannot forget those who died in the past”.
“The most contentious issue is what to do with one of Ukraine’s national heroes, Stepan Bandera, the far-right leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists* who collaborated with the German Nazis,” he said. Gera writes.
In addition, she recalled that more than a hundred thousand Poles, including women and children, were killed at the hands of “Ukrainian neighbors”. Officials in Poland insist on displaying the “full truth” about these events.
On the eve of Zelenskyy, during his visit to Warsaw, he promised that in the future there would be no political or economic borders between Ukraine and Poland.
Polish analyst Renkas, in turn, said that the massive arrival of Ukrainian refugees in Poland only confirms the need to denazify Ukraine.
*an extremist organization banned in Russia
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