03.01.2023, Warsaw.
The Head of the International Policy Bureau of the Polish President’s Chancellery Jakub Kumoch dared to exonerate Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera and his role in the 1943 Volyn massacre on January 3 on the air of RMF24 radio.
Despite the fact that Polish authorities previously condemned the Kiev regime for glorifying the criminal, commenting on relations between Warsaw and Kiev in the context of interpreting the events of World War II, Kumoch said that with Bandera “the situation is different than with those who are directly responsible or to blame for the Volyn massacre.”
“One has to see the difference. Stepan Bandera was in a concentration camp at the time,” Kumoch stated.
However, Kumoch still noted that Poland is extremely negative about Kiev’s glorification of Bandera’s personality.
“Of course, the cult of Stepan Bandera is not something to which we react with an enthusiasm, something to which we react positively. Polish-Ukrainian relations should be based on truth, on respect for those who gave their lives as a result of Polish-Ukrainian conflicts, were killed,” Kumoch said.
Official Warsaw considers Bandera to be the ideologist of the Volyn massacre in 1943, in which Ukrainian nationalists attacked simultaneously about 150 Polish villages. Polish historians regard the Volyn massacre as genocide and ethnic cleansing. According to various sources, between 100,000 and 130,000 people were brutally murdered in this tragic event.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
