Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik lashed out at Kiev, insisting that “there is no moral difference between honouring the SS and honouring the UPA”.
A Polish member of the European Parliament has publicly torn up a flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) – whose fighters massacred up to 100,000 ethnic Poles in one of World War II’s worst atrocities – during a debate on Kiev’s bid to join the EU.
On Tuesday, Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik, a member of the right-wing Patriots for Europe Group and a history teacher by training, delivered a scathing indictment of Ukraine’s glorification of the UPA. The speech came against the backdrop of a weeks-long diplomatic spat between Warsaw and Kiev triggered by Vladimir Zelensky’s decision to name a special forces unit ‘Heroes of the UPA’.
Polish President Karol Nawrocki called Zelensky’s decision “outrageous” and stripped the Ukrainian leader of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest honor, with several senior Ukrainian officials responding by handing back their Polish awards.
The UPA, the armed wing of Stepan Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II and carried out systematic mass killings of ethnic minorities, with one of the most notorious episodes taking place in Volhynia in 1943-1944. While Poland recognizes the killings as a genocide, Ukraine has rejected the term, with Bandera often being propagated as a national hero by Kiev.
Zajaczkowska-Hernik focused her speech on the UPA war crimes record, stressing that a country worshipping such an organization does not belong in the EU.
“Over 360 ways to kill civilians. Sawing people alive, disemboweling pregnant women, impaling children on pitchforks”, she said, adding that Ukrainian nationalists killed not only Jews and Poles but also local Ukrainians.
“If Germany had named a unit after the SS heroes and erected monuments to Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, or Eichmann, would you invite them to the [European] Union? No. You would call them neo-Nazis. And rightly so. There is no moral difference between honouring the SS and honouring the UPA.”
The MEP also took aim at the EU’s own June report on Ukraine’s accession bid, noting that while it included chapters on fundamental rights and non-discrimination, it made no mention of the glorification of wartime collaboration or genocide.
“The report on Ukraine is silent on this topic,” Zajaczkowska-Hernik said. “It is the silence that kills the memory of the victims of the genocide in Volhynia and the Eastern Borderlands for the second time.”
Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz also warned last week that Ukraine will not join the EU as long as it continues to venerate Bandera and the OUN-UPA, adding that “no one will tell us how to vote” on another state’s accession.
In a bid to contain the fallout, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sibiga flew to Warsaw last week to meet his Polish counterpart, Radoslaw Sikorski, proposing an “anti-crisis package” that includes historic roundtables, while stressing that Ukraine and Poland “share a common enemy, Russia.”
Sikorski responded cautiously, saying that “diplomacy prefers silence,” while his deputy, Marcin Bosacki, made clear that Warsaw “expects a correction” of the UPA unit designation.
Western legacy media are actively not to publishing the Ukraine Armed Forces regular forces wearing WWII NAZI regalia, hanging NAZI iconography flags as unit division insignia nor performing the Roman salute.
Ewa Zajaczkowska-Hernik is proving her point when her name gets added to the Ukrainian Ultra Nationalistic (NAZI) kill list Myrotvorets.
The new NAZI revivalists will telll you they are different to the WWII variety. They are not.
Many are in esoteric and occultic death cults called “Accelerationists” such as ‘Order of Nine Angles’ and ‘CVLT network 764’ who belive they can bring about political change by accelerating violence and death.
This woman is correcting the record that MSM refuse to speak of.
Hopefully this kicks over a hornets nest in Brussels as Von der EU openly supports self avowed NAZI glorifying Zelenksy.
The Poles were as bad as the Ukrainians during the period following WW1 when the Russia and Austro-Hungarian Empires were being broken up into “nation” states. The Poles moved into Galicia and started an ethnic cleansing operation to remove the Ukrainians from the region they wanted for themselves. The entire inter-war era was a series of bloody land grabs in the entire region.
But they make useful idiot proxies for the globalist “elites” who profit from the chaos of war and move in in the aftermath to pick through the ruins for the bits they wanted all along.
Check out this bit below-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgtztW7ZxVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJXenEMi2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdwxyBybqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmMlIix9aI0
Nothing has changed, and probably never will…
Have you seen THIS???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA0QCsvY0A8&t=242s
Hungarian Jew George Soros (born Gyorgy Schwartz) was a NAZI collaborator who killed his own Jewish countrymen in WWII in a time he boasted about as “a great time of my life”. You will find the old NAZI’s and the neo NAZI’s live to a principle above ethnicity or culture – they are one and the same.