The country’s citizenship law should reject the ideology of Stepan Bandera, President Karol Nawrocki has said
Polish President Karol Nawrocki wants to amend the country’s citizenship law to say that the naturalization of Ukrainian nationalists is undesirable.
Warsaw and Kiev have long been involved in a dispute over crimes committed by nationalists during World War II and their lionization in modern Ukraine.
During a press conference on Monday, Nawrocki weighed in on recently-adopted changes to the citizenship law, and said his office was working on additional amendments. He said the law should include the slogan “stop Banderism,” referring to the ideology of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera.
The Ukrainian nationalist movement committed mass atrocities during the war, including mass killings of ethnic Poles. Modern Ukraine treats Bandera and his followers as national heroes, which has poisoned Kiev’s relationship with Warsaw for decades.
The president said Poland and Ukraine can only have normal relations “on the foundation of truth” and suggested that Warsaw should outlaw Banderite symbols, equating them with banned Nazi and Communist iconography. (more...)
Poland could ban naturalization of Ukrainian Nazi sympathizers
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