Poland Is to Reveal Ukrainian Nationalists on the Border

In the early hours of February 1, 2018, the Senate of Poland adopted a statute on the Institute of National Remembrance which, after it was signed by the president, made it an offence for the propaganda of the ideas of Stephan Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist of the period of the WWII, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (the UPA) which members had taken part in the shooting of the peaceful Poles in Volhynia. Besides that the statue extends to the rejection of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia as well as statements about the complicity of the Poles with the Nazi. That step was well expected and was a logical continuation of the historical argues that don't soften between Poland and Ukraine each of which tries to defend its version of the past. For Poland, Stephan Bandera is a criminal and a murderer while he's a glorious hero for Ukraine.