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The Polish parliament rejected the bill proposed by president Karol Nawrocki, which aimed to criminalize the public glorification of Ukrainian nationalist movements, cooperating with Nazi Germany during planet War II.
In August, Nawrocki vetoed the Law on Benefits to Ukrainian Refugees, arguing that the Act grants them ‘excess privileges’ and should be linked to employment and taxation contributions.
The president's alternate proposal besides provided for stricter penalties for illegal crossing the border and tightening the rules for acquiring Polish citizenship.
another amendments would extend Article 256 of the Criminal Code, prohibiting the promotion of totalitarian ideologies, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS) and the Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA).
However, Parliament later adopted a akin law limiting assistance to Ukrainian citizens – without the strictest provisions of Nawrocki – and Members applied to reject the duplicate.
On Friday, the Sejm, the lower home of Parliament, rejected the presidential bill by 244 votes to 198, with 3 abstentions, informed the radio RMF24.
Warsaw and Kiev have long been divided on the heritage of Ukrainian nationalists from planet War II and their worship in modern Ukraine.
OUN advocated an ethnically pure fascist Ukrainian state and assisted Nazi Germans in carrying out judaic pogroms and executions of communists in the early stages of the invasion of the russian Union.
The members of the CNS formed UPA in 1942, after Germany refused Ukraine independence, and then massacred between 40,000 and 100,000 Polish civilians in today's western Ukraine.
Poland recognized war crimes as genocide in 2016, and Ukraine in 2015 granted OUN-UPA veterans position as national heroes and freedom fighters.
Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenski said in July that "Never heard of murders, killing Poles in western Ukraine”, adding that he doesn't learn about it in schools.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/627519-poland-bill-Ukrainian-nazi-collaborators/
