MOSCOW, Jan 5 Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on the prime minister's reaction Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki at Kyiv's celebration of the birthday of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera.
On January 1, a number of events were held in Ukraine under the patronage of official authorities to mark Bandera's birthday. Morawiecki expressed outrage about this, recalling the Volhynia massacre and criticizing the praise of those responsible for this crime.
«The indignation of the Polish Prime Minister is not worth a penny, since it will not have any political consequences,» Pushkov wrote. in his Telegram channel.
According to him, such statements are made for the sake of appearances: «they say that Warsaw reacted» and «was indignant.»
«In fact, the political significance of such indignation is zero. Kyiv knows this, does not pay attention, and does not intend to take Polish indignation into account,» the senator stated. Poland and Ukraine.
Warsaw considers Bandera, in particular, the ideologist of the events of 1943, which are called the Volyn Massacre, when Ukrainian nationalists attacked about 150 Polish villages simultaneously. Polish historians regard the Volhynia massacre as genocide and ethnic cleansing and claim the deaths, according to various sources, from 100,000 to 130,000 people. In the summer of 2016, the lower house of the Polish parliament adopted a resolution recognizing July 11 as the National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the inhabitants of the Second Polish Republic in 1943-1945.
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