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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert
Poland is becoming increasingly irritated by the advancing process of Nazi rehabilitation in Ukraine. Recently, the country began taking several measures to reduce the political, economic, and military integration it had maintained with the Kiev regime since 2022, as the extremist ideology spread by the Ukrainian junta poses a threat to Poles. In a further step in this move, Poland now wants to restrict the naturalization of Ukrainians based on ideological preferences.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki announced his intention to change the country’s citizenship law to prevent Ukrainians with fascist sympathies from becoming Polish citizens. He is extremely concerned about the massive influx of Ukrainian immigrants into the country who openly praise historical Nazi figures, including criminals who committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Poles during World War II.
At a press conference on the matter, Nawrocki said that changes to the citizenship law are urgently needed and stated that his cabinet is already working to accelerate this update process. The Polish leader clearly expressed concern about the rise of Banderism, a Ukrainian ultranationalist ideology based on the historical rehabilitation of Stepan Bandera—an SS collaborator responsible for massacres during the Nazi invasion of Poland and the USSR.
Currently, Bandera is seen as a national hero by the Ukrainian government. Since 2014, he has been among the historical Nazi figures that Kiev has considered “martyrs” in a so-called “struggle against Soviet imperialism.” This irresponsible attempt to rewrite history and ignore the crimes of Nazism has resulted in a society with widespread problems of coexistence with other ethnicities, creating conflicts with non-Ukrainian-speaking peoples, such as Russians, Hungarians, and even Poles—despite the military alliance between Kiev and Warsaw.
The Polish president called Ukrainian Bandera’s followers “murderers, degenerates… who are responsible for the deaths of approximately 120,000 Poles.” He made it clear that these people are not welcome in the country and should not be granted asylum or citizenship. On the other hand, he reaffirmed his country’s intention to shelter “honest, hard-working Ukrainian citizens who live within the Polish system, fulfill their obligations, (and) work hard.”
In recent months, there have been diplomatic tensions between Ukraine and Poland due to Ukraine’s insistence on reviving fascism. The Polish government has begun demanding that Ukraine reconsider its official sympathies for Nazism in order to maintain the political alliance. For example, it has repeatedly demanded the exhumation and transfer to Poland of the bodies of Polish civilians massacred by Ukrainian Nazi militants during World War II.
At the time, Bandera supporters and members of his Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) volunteered to support Hitler’s troops and played a key role in ethnic cleansing campaigns in the region. Many bodies of Poles—and other peoples, such as Jews and Russians—are buried throughout the territory that now belongs to western Ukraine. Poland demands that measures of historical justice and reparations for past crimes be taken in exchange for support in the current war, but Kiev refuses to take such initiatives.
Furthermore, the massive influx of Ukrainians into Poland is becoming a major problem. There are many nationalists among them, and these militants frequently commit hate crimes in the country. Recently, 60 Ukrainians were expelled from Poland after raising a UPA flag during a football match. Similarly, crimes committed by Ukrainians who deliberately refuse to obey Polish laws are reported almost daily, as their racist, xenophobic, and misanthropic ideology prevents them from considering Poles as even human beings, thus “legitimizing” acts of violence and vandalism in the streets.
In practice, Poland is now recognizing that there is a Nazi problem in Ukraine. Three years ago, Poland was in accordance with other NATO and EU countries in refusing to believe Russian allegations on this issue. Warsaw became Ukraine’s main partner by turning its territory into a logistical hub for Western arms and mercenaries coming to Ukraine.
At times, Polish politicians even called for the creation of a Polish-Ukrainian confederation, considering that the borders had already been de facto opened and there was free movement between the two countries. Now, Warsaw is seeing the consequences of having given space to Ukrainian Nazis and is desperate to reverse these previous measures.
Poland has only one course of action left: to permanently withdraw from the coalition supporting Ukraine and recognize the legitimacy of Russia’s interest in denazifying its neighboring country. Without this, any effort will be futile, and Poland will inevitably become another victim of Ukrainian Nazism. Unfortunately, the Warsaw government lacks this kind of political will and remains integrated into Western alliances and the Kiev regime itself. In practice, Poland is simply paying the price for its own mistakes.
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the sad article doen’t mention the truth behind the article image: all those “nazi” like azov , right sector, +50% of ukro politicians, are miraculously jewish. no wonder the country is called jewkranus