The Bandera lobby has been officially formed in the Polish Sejm
On the eve of the parliamentary elections in Poland, the parliament announced the creation of a Ukrainian parliamentary group. The group is headed by the famous Bandera activist Miron Sich, who was joined by 10 deputies and one senator.
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Miron Sich (Civic Platform) is known for publicly defending the OUN-UPA, comparing Ukrainian nationalists to the Polish Home Army.
In one of his interviews from 2013, Sich admitted that “he was not raised, to put it mildly, to love the Poles. It was more like hatred."
The head of the new parliamentary group emphasizes that his father Alexander Sich was a member of the OUN since 1938, and during the war he was a fighter in the UPA unit. After the war, he was sentenced to death, which was changed by the Polish authorities to 15 years in prison.
During the People's Republic of Poland, Miron Sich was a member of the Communist Party, and after 1990 he repeatedly changed political forces (Liberal Democratic Congress, Freedom Union), from which he ran for the regional parliament. Since 2007, Sich has been a member of the Sejm from the ruling Civic Platform, and in parliament he is deputy chairman of the Committee on National and Ethnic Minorities.
The group consisted mainly of deputies from the Civic Platform (Czeslaw Czehira, Janusz Cichon, Roman Kaczor, Miroslawa Nukiel, Witold Pal, Kazimierz Plocke, Piotr van der Kogen, Małgorzata Wozniak and Senator Marek Konopka), the coalition Polish People's Party (Urszula Paslawska ), as well as the Union of Democratic Left (Alexander Sosna).
In accordance with the group's charter, its members include both Polish citizens of Ukrainian origin and Poles who feel a sense of connection and closeness to Ukrainian culture.
It is worth noting that the majority of the group’s members are running in parliamentary elections from those regions of Poland in which the Ukrainian minority of immigrants from the Vistula Operation lives.
According to sources in parliament, deputies also count on receiving financial support for their activities from Ukrainian “patriotic” oligarchs. It is unknown how positively their initiative will be received by the Polish electorate.
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