Contents tagged with Bandera
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Kyiv responds to Israel’s accusation of 'glorifying anti-Semites'
Ukraine categorically condemns all forms of anti-Semitism and pays homage to the victims of the Holocaust on a state level. It also does not intend to forego paying respect to the people who fought for Ukraine’s independence, whose names have been tarnished by Soviet propaganda, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The Israeli ambassador recently accused Ukraine of glorifying Stepan Bandera and Andriy Melnyk, two leaders of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), which …
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Thousands of Ukrainians rally on Stepan Bandera’s birthday
Ukrainians have rallied in a number of cities across Ukraine on what would have been the 111th birthday of one of the ideologists of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.
The traditional torchlight procession on the 111th birthday of Stepan Bandera involved, according to various estimates, between one and several thousand nationalists and sympathizers. Participants bore torches, flags of the All-Ukrainian Union “Freedom”, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and various Cossack …
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister proposes reburying Stepan Bandera in Ukraine
A Pantheon of heroes should be made in Ukraine and the ashes of the OUN leader Stepan Bandera reburied there, stated the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pavlo Klimkin after the meeting of the Ukrainian government.
“I believe that we need this from a respect standpoint to our heroes and with the point of view that it will cultivate feeling and understating of one’s own history. This will require the necessary decisions, but I do not see any problems in arranging a Pantheon,” Klimkin said. …
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Polish Foreign Ministry: Act on the Institute of National Remembrance doesn’t pose a threat to Ukrainians
Ukraine’s glorification of people that Poland considers criminals has been contributing to national enmity between the two countries and it continues to poison Ukrainian-Polish relations, as stated by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, Bartosz Cichocki in an interview with Evropeiska Pravda.
As an example, the diplomat spoke of the incident when a Polish nurse tore up a Ukrainian document after seeing that the place of registration was Stepan Bandera Street.
The diplomat emphasized, "This …
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Former Polish Prime Minister: There is no connection between Bandera and Volyn tragedy
Former Prime Minister of Poland Jan Olszewski believes that Stepan Bandera is unfairly demonized in his country, since the Ukrainian nationalist leader is unlikely to have been involved in the tragic events in Volhynia during the Second World War, reports Polskie Radio.
"Stepan Bandera’s crime against the Polish people was really only one. And those who are eager to speak of banderism in Poland today have often forgotten about it. This crime was the attempted assassination of Polish Minister …
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OSCE and US State Department criticized the Polish law on 'Bandera ideology' but Russia supported it
The law "On the Institute of National Memory" that was approved by the Polish Senate limits the freedom of speech, stated the representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on media freedom, Harlem Désir.
The Polish Sejm recently approved a law banning the propaganda of the so-called "Bandera ideology.” The law would make it possible to initiate criminal proceedings against individuals who deny the guilt of Ukrainian nationalists for crimes against the Poles. For …
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Polish Sejm votes in favor of ban on 'Bandera Propaganda'
The Polish Sejm voted on Friday to amend a law on the Institute of National Memory to introduce punishment for so-called “Bandera propaganda”. The amendment stipulates a fine or imprisonment for up to 3 years for the denial of crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists, reports Onet.pl.
The amendment refers to actions related to the use of "violence, terror or other forms of human rights violations against individuals or groups of people” that occurred in the time period between 1925 and 1950. …
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Polish Ambassador: Russia wants to sow discord between Poland and Ukraine
In his interview with with Day news web site, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Jan Piekło, said that the Polish and Ukrainian governments understand that "we should not argue under any circumstance," on the contrary it is necessary to cooperate to counter Russian aggression and propaganda.
The Ambassador was commenting on a statement made by the leader of the Law and Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, who recently said that, by making a hero out of Bandera, Ukraine will never …