An indignant Pole called the police to the cemetery after hearing a Tyahnibokovite shouting “SUGS!”
Bandera's greeting “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!" became the reason for calling the police during memorial events in the village of Sagriń, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by the Lublin newspaper “Dzennik Wschodni”.
The official Ukrainian delegation that arrived in the village of Sagriń to honor the Ukrainians killed by the Polish Home Army in 1944 included the controversial Ukrainian diplomat, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and now Ambassador to Poland Andriy Deshchytsia, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasyl Bodnar, representatives local authorities in the Lviv and Volyn regions.
According to the publication, Oleksandr Pirozhik, first deputy head of the Volyn regional council of the Svoboda party, particularly “distinguished himself” at this event. He ended his speech with a shout of SUGS!, declaring that this is, they say, a “traditional Ukrainian greeting.” At the same time, the Polish newspaper identified this “greeting” as Bandera, and therefore subject to the recently adopted “anti-Bandera” law in the country.
It is reported that one of the Poles present at the event regarded this demarche of fellow party member Oleg Tyagnibok as a glorification of the leader of Ukrainian collaborators from the OUN Stepan Bandera, which is banned in Poland. The indignant Pole called the police to the cemetery. Tyagnibok, justifying himself, stated that “the Poles have their heroes, and the Ukrainians have theirs. And these heroes are Banderaites.”
The police who arrived at the call copied the passport details of the Tyagnibok brawler and left. Now the prosecutor’s office in Grebeshov must establish whether a violation of the “anti-Bandera” law occurred during the memorial event in Sagryn or not.
The newspaper “Kronika Tygodnia” writes about another incident that occurred during memorial events in Sagryni. One of those present pulled out a red and black Bandera flag, but quickly hid it. This was enough for Polish journalists to notice the flag.
The incident was commented on his social network page by the former head of the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry during the times of Viktor Yanukovych, Oleg Voloshin.
“This is undoubtedly another milestone in strengthening our authority in world diplomacy. They made an obviously provocative event to spite the Poles, decided to pretend to be cowboys - in the end the police arrived and the holiday ended. Simply brilliant! Only in this way will we normalize relations with Poland,” he wrote.
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