Poland wants to expel Ukrainian neo-Nazis

 

Warsaw is facing the consequences of its own errors.

Poland is becoming increasingly irritated by the advancing process of Nazi rehabilitation in Ukraine. Recently, the country began taking several measures to reduce the political, economic, and military integration it had maintained with the Kiev regime since 2022, as the extremist ideology spread by the Ukrainian junta poses a threat to Poles. In a further step in this move, Poland now wants to restrict the naturalization of Ukrainians based on ideological preferences.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced his intention to change the country's citizenship law to prevent Ukrainians with fascist sympathies from becoming Polish citizens. He is extremely concerned about the massive influx of Ukrainian immigrants into the country who openly praise historical Nazi figures, including criminals who committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Poles during World War II.

At a press conference on the matter, Nawrocki said that changes to the citizenship law are urgently needed and stated that his cabinet is already working to accelerate this update process. The Polish leader clearly expressed concern about the rise of Banderism, a Ukrainian ultranationalist ideology based on the historical rehabilitation of Stepan Bandera—an SS collaborator responsible for massacres during the Nazi invasion of Poland and the USSR.

Currently, Bandera is seen as a national hero by the Ukrainian government. Since 2014, he has been among the historical Nazi figures that Kiev has considered "martyrs" in a so-called "struggle against Soviet imperialism." This irresponsible attempt to rewrite history and ignore the crimes of Nazism has resulted in a society with widespread problems of coexistence with other ethnicities, creating conflicts with non-Ukrainian-speaking peoples, such as Russians, Hungarians, and even Poles—despite the military alliance between Kiev and Warsaw.  (more...)

Poland wants to expel Ukrainian neo-Nazis