What Zelensky just did is no different than if Germany gave Governor-General of the World War II-era “General Government” Hans Frank a hero’s burial in Berlin and then named an elite unit after him.
Zelensky’s reburial of former “Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists’” (OUN) leader Andrey Melnik in Kiev with honors and renaming of an elite unit as the “Heroes of the ‘Ukrainian Insurgent Army’ (UPA)”, the OUN’s armed wing, proves that Ukraine is now indisputably an anti-Polish state. As a reminder, both Melnik’s and Stepan Bandera’s OUN factions carried out the UPA’s Volhynia Genocide, which killed over 100,000 Poles. Many of them were women and children who were murdered in very grisly ways.
Poland already spent 4.91% of its GDP on Ukraine, mostly through support of its over one-million refugees that are still living in the country, and donated its entire stockpile to it. Many Poles also donated to charities helping Ukrainian refugees and some even housed them too. All of this was done without any questions asked and with no strings attached in solidarity with Ukraine due to the Polish State’s and many Poles’ intense dislike of Russia for historical reasons beyond the scope of this analysis to detail.
Ukraine was already becoming an anti-Polish state by then, however, as Polish activist Małgorzata Zych wrote in a recent tweet: “These are not Zelensky’s excesses but the consequence of the law adopted in 2015 on the legal status and commemoration of the memory of fighters for Ukraine’s independence in the 20th century, which glorifies criminals from the OUN and UPA, something that has never elicited a negative reaction from the Polish government and which is hidden from the Polish public.”
The public can thus be forgiven for extending such support to Ukrainians, but the government can’t since it knew about this but still aided Ukraine with no political strings attached. As co-founder of Poland’s populist-nationalist opposition party Confederation Krzysztof Bosak said, “Ukraine continues to glorify the perpetrators of genocide and the instigators of unimaginable crimes. The PiS and PO governments slept through the only period in which it was realistically possible to enforce a change in this policy.” (more...)
Ukraine Is Now Indisputably An Anti-Polish State
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Pan @G_Schetyna mija sie z prawdą. To nie są ekscesy Zelenskiego tylko konsekwencja przyjętej w 2015 roku ustawy o statusie prawnym i upamiętnieniu pamięci bojowników o niezależność Ukrainy w XX wieku, gloryfikujacej zbrodniarzy z OUN UPA na co nigdy nie było negatywnej… https://t.co/1oJ4KHtRSJ
— Małgorzata Zych 🇵🇱 (@Malgosiazych) May 28, 2026
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