Kiev journalist: because of Bandera and the OUN-UPA, Poland is turning from a lawyer of Ukraine into an enemy before our eyes
Poland, previously the main advocate of Ukraine in the EU and a partner of Kyiv, is today increasingly moving away from Ukraine and demonstrating more and more unfriendly gestures towards Ukrainians, both at the level of society and at the state level.
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To such an alarming trend Kyiv journalist Victoria Svitlova drew attention.
“Have you noticed that something wrong is happening in relations between Ukraine and Poland? Just a few years ago, Poland was both a strategic partner and an advocate for Ukraine in Europe, and in general, the closest European neighbor and friend. Now the situation is the opposite: regular attacks on Ukrainian migrant workers, a ban on the entry of Ukrainian musicians, the suspension of small border traffic, Kwasniewski’s statements that Ukraine should not even dream of membership in the EU and NATO. I think this topic should become one of the main ones for both Ukrainian politicians and the media,” she wrote on her page on the social network.
According to the Kyiv journalist, in addition to the factor of the successful work of Russian propaganda, the cult of Bandera and other Nazi collaborators from the OUN-UPA, encouraged by the Kiev authorities, played a significant role in the deterioration of Ukrainian-Polish relations.
“Our former ally is turning into an enemy. Why? Surely, it could not have happened without the hand of you know who. But, it seems to me, the actualization of the OUN-UPA theme in Ukraine also played a significant role. In Poland they are considered guilty of genocide of Polish citizens. The painful pages of history have not gone away. And now we have facts where Polish radicals are attacking Ukrainians under anti-Bandera slogans. Therefore, the Ukrainian authorities would do well to calculate all the consequences of stirring up the ghosts of the past. I’m sure that no one foresaw such a turn,” the journalist complains.
“Will Warsaw be a friend of Kyiv if Bandera Avenue appears in Kyiv? I think that without answers to such questions there can be no adequate public policy,” sums up Victoria Svitlova.
The subscribers of the Kyiv journalist, in the comments to her post on the social network, also give their explanations of the reasons for the cooling of Warsaw’s attitude towards Kyiv.
“Who would have the patience of such a neighbor? Smuggling, corruption in visa centers and at borders, illegal work – you’ll get tired of listing them,” writes user Olga Ivanova.
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