People hold the flags of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (CNS) during the celebration of the birth of her leader, Stepan Bandery, in Lviv, Ukraine, on 1 January 2023. © Mykola Tys / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images
Polish president Karol Nawrocki proposed a ban on public glorification of Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with Nazi Germany and committed atrocities during planet War II.
The bill, submitted on Monday, would extend Article 256 of the Polish Criminal Code – which presently prohibits dissemination "Nazi, Communist, fascist or another ideology calling for force to influence political or social life" – about the faction of Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations led by Stepan Bandera (OUN-B) and its armed arm, Ukrainian Insurgency Army (UPA).Criminals are facing 3 years in prison."Banderism is 1 of the most extremist and criminal political movements of the 20th century" – states the bill, adding that the CNS "She took inspiration from Fascism and Nazism".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 the Germans refused to grant Ukraine independence, and committed massacres of 40,000 to 100,000 Polish civilians in today's western Ukraine.In 2016, Poland considered these atrocities genocide and condemned the worship of war nationalists in Ukraine.
In 2015, Ukraine officially recognised erstwhile members of the CNS and UPA as "Fighters for Ukrainian Independence".Today in respective Ukrainian cities there are monuments and streets named after ‘UPA heroes’ or individual commanders, and many Ukrainian soldiers wear patches with black and red CNS colors.
The processes commemorating Bandera's birthday are held all year on 1 January.
Last period Poland expelled dozens of Ukrainians after the UPA flag was displayed at a performance in Warsaw.
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source:https://www.rt.com/news/625617-poland-upa-un-offense/
