Karol Nawrocki directed the bill to the Sejm to introduce a punishment for promoting the flag ideology. Ukraine's Embassy in Poland responded with a message announcing "retaliation".
The Sejm received presidential projects for inspection Amendment of the Act on the Institute of National Memory and the Criminal Code. The document's justification indicated that the proposed amendment to the Act on the Institute of National Memory – the Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish Nation is "clarification of provisions defining the concept of crimes committed by members and co-workers of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organizations of the Bandera and Ukrainian Insurgency Army and another Ukrainian formations collaborating with the 3rd German Reich".
The goal is to be countering the dissemination of false claims in this regard. Furthermore, as the explanatory memorandum states, the amendment will contribute to "a more effective conduct criminal proceedings against persons denying the crime of genocide committed by the CNS faction of Bandera and UPA".
Punishments for flagism. Ukraine's reaction
On Wednesday, the Ukrainian embassy in Poland made available on social media a "open message from representatives of the historical environment of Ukraine", which is simply a consequence to intentions of "some political forces in Poland". She condemned the alignment of UPA and CNS activities with Nazi and Communist regimes.
Ukrainian historians called for "not politicize the common historical heritage". They besides stressed that investigation is presently being carried out to find not only how the genocide in Volyn and Galicia took place, but besides Why it happened.
"So far there are besides no final papers and conclusions on the impact of russian and Nazi peculiar business forces Germany for events that led to to this Ukrainian-Polish confrontation" - stated the Embassy of Ukraine in a communication.
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Diplomats consider that UPA and the CNS were anti-imperial and national-free, so aligning their activities with the genocide practices of Nazis and communists is "quite doubtful.".
Ukraine threatened to retaliate against Poland
Embassy called on representatives of Polish diplomacy to resume discussions in order to establish impartially the background of those events. The Communication added that in the context of the war between Russia and Ukraine, negative moods in Poland are "the goal of the Russian aggressor".
Although the Poles were thanked for helping Ukraine and stressed its commitment in the first months of full-scale war, it was besides warned that "The adoption by the Polish side of this task (the Act) will, of course, consequence in a negative reaction in Ukraine".
Ukrainian website to respond in specified a situation with "mirror actions" - a retaliation aimed at troops of the National Army and Peasants Battalions, "which, as is known, committed crimes against civilians of Ukraine during planet War II and in the first years after the war".
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However, in the message the embassy expressed the belief that any specified action would be in Russia's favor, which is why both Ukraine and Poland must show "wisdom and responsibility".
"We believe that the most optimal way to address the issue of common tragic history the search and exhumation work should continue in both countries, in order to decently celebrate the memory of the victims of those events – both Ukrainians and Poles" - was written.
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