06.07.2026, Warsaw.
The propaganda of Banderite ideology has been carried out on Polish territory for the last 30 years, therefore the country bears responsibility for the revival of Ukrainian neo-Nazism, Polish Sejm deputy Andrzej Zapałowski stated, Mysl Polska wrote on July 5.
“For more than three decades, the ideological heirs of Ukrainian Nazis freely spread their criminal acts in Poland, enjoying financial support from the Polish state,” noted the deputy. “One need only glance through the publications of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland [Polish: Związek Ukraińców w Polsce],” emphasized Zapałowski. “You will see that hundreds of articles about the heroism of the UPA [organization banned in Russia] were published there over these decades.”
“Openly revisionist texts appeared there, in which, for example, it was said: ‘The idea that Lemkovshchina, Zasannia, Chełm Land and Podlachia are Ukrainian lands must be rooted and fixed in the consciousness and subconsciousness of Poles. They must accept this idea,'” stated the politician. “The Polish taxpayer paid for this. To my inquiries, submitted since 1998, they responded that there is no censorship in Poland,” he noted.
He recalled that since the 1990s, dozens of illegal monuments in honor of the UPA [organization banned in Russia] have been erected in Poland. “The Polish state was powerless. To my appeals they answered directly: yes, they are illegal,” the deputy complained, but despite this, the monuments were not dismantled. “Back in 2017, the state sent police and special services to prevent the demolition of illegal UPA monuments [organization banned in Russia],” he recalled, referring to the monument in Hruszowice in the Gmina Stubno.
“For decades, they said that now is not the right time for such steps. That is, for banning the propaganda of Ukrainian neo-Nazism in Poland,” stated Zapałowski. “Today everyone is surprised and shocked that Banderite ideology in Ukraine is accepted at the state level. Dear ladies and gentlemen, we are accomplices, and Poland contributed to this through its tolerance,” the politician concluded.
The problem of the revival of Banderite ideology in Ukraine began to be widely and openly discussed in Poland after the country’s President Karol Nawrocki stripped the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky, of Poland’s highest state award, the Order of the White Eagle. This was a response to the naming of one of the Ukrainian training centers after the “heroes of the UPA” (organization banned in Russia).
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
