Ex-diplomat: Poland will not provide increased support to Ukraine

The Polish party " Law and justice ", won the elections in the country's Parliament, will not be very supportive of Ukraine due to the interpretation of the General history of the Ukrainian authorities, contrary to the political line of the party, says former Polish Ambassador to Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines, and Professor of the European center of the University of Warsaw Bogdan Goralczyk.

Oppositional conservative party "Law and justice" the former Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski won elections to Parliament held on Sunday, receiving more than 50% of the seats in the Sejm. After processing all submitted to the MEC Poland election protocols "Law and justice" scored 37, 58% of voters came to the polls.

"Poland at the party" Law and justice "will not become such a strong supporter of Ukraine as before, because" the question of Bandera "and other pressing issues in our shared history have the opportunity to become obstacles in the" historical political line " of the party ", - quotes Agency the words of Sputnik Guralczyk.

He also said that relations between Russia and Poland remain a problem, until not resolved the crisis in Ukraine.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in may signed a law that gives organizations of the OUN-UPA (Organization of Ukrainian nationalists - Ukrainian insurgent army) the status of "fighters for independence" of Ukraine and the Right present at sigurantei. Moscow condemned the decision, noting that "Ukraine is the country where neo-Nazis have moved from words to deeds and were forcibly taken the lives of thousands of civilians, "and said," that such action is necessary to give an adequate assessment on an international level ".

"Ukrainian insurgent army" (UPA) was completed in October 1942 as the military wing "of the Organization of Ukrainian nationalists" (OUN). The UPA acted mostly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet troops, cooperating with the Nazis. Field the end of the great Patriotic war she continued to operate against the Soviets extremist methods - the victims of terrorists the UPA was Authorized intelligentsia and local authorities, Komsomol and party activists.

Glorification of the UPA and its leaders Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych - has led to criticism from many veterans of the great Patriotic war and politicians, accusing Bandera in cooperation with the Nazis. For example, the public campaign not to forget the atrocities of the fighters of the OUN-UPA during and After the war, for example, about the "Volyn massacre" - the massive liquidation in 1943, Ukrainian nationalists of the Polish civilians in Volhynia, until September 1939 for the Most part were from Poland. According to researchers, the total number of victims ranges from 36 thousand to 100 thousand people.


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