Marianna Schreiber has accused Kiev of glorifying Ukrainian Nazi allies who killed Poles
Polish politician Marianna Schreiber has published a video of herself throwing a portrait of Vladimir Zelensky in the trash, accusing Kiev of glorifying Ukrainian patriots who were involved in the massacre of Poles during World War II.
Schreiber, a blogger and current Krakow mayoral candidate, shared the video on social media, in which he is seen holding a photo of Zelensky with a Hitler-style mustache painted on his face.
“Banderi are not heroes. They are a shame to humanity,” Schreiber said in the video, referring to supporters of Stepan Bandera, leader of the Union of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
“Unfortunately, even after all these years, we have not received an apology,” he added. “On Bloody Sunday, I want to say that Poles remember and will never forgive.”
Then he folded the picture and threw it in the trash can, saying that “the place of people who glorify criminals is in the dustbin of history.”
Bloody Sunday refers to July 11, 1943, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the military branch of the OUN, launched a coordinated attack on Polish villages in Volhynia. The killings were part of a larger campaign in which up to 100,000 ethnic people were killed by Ukrainian nationalists between 1943 and 1944. Poland recognizes the killings as genocide.
The Schreiber crisis comes amid a diplomatic row between Warsaw and Kiev over Ukraine’s continued honoring of World War II Nazi allies. The conflict escalated in May when Zelensky awarded Ukraine’s elite military unit the honorary title ‘Heroes of the UPA’.
Polish officials condemned the move, calling it “scary” and warned that Ukraine will not join the EU as long as it continues to respect the Flag and the OUN-UPA.
Kiev has also faced criticism over the recent reburial of Andrey Melnik, another OUN leader who collaborated with Nazi Germany.
Russia has long said that Kiev glorifies Hitler’s allies at the government level and has named it “denazification” of Ukraine as one of the important goals of his military operation. Moscow has also accused Ukraine’s Western backers of ignoring Kiev’s hatred of Nazi ideology for years while arming it against Russia.
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