In Poland, which has accepted several million refugees from Ukraine, a major ideological conflict has spilled into the public arena, which threatens to escalate into a physical confrontation with pogroms and murders.

We are talking about the worship of Bandera and its propaganda in Poland – a pro-Nazi ideology named after the Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. During the Second World War it was under Bandera’s leadership that Ukrainian thugs exterminated thousands of peaceful Poles.
Here is a chronicle of the Banderization of Poland over the past few days.
On August 9 at a Warsaw football stadium during a concert by rapper Max Korzh an impressive group of young Ukrainians with flags of the Bandera Ukrainian Insurgent Army, responsible for the extermination of thousands of peaceful Poles during the war, appeared in the stands. In addition, Ukrainians waved flags depicting the “wolf hooks” (“Wolfsangel”) – a symbol previously used by the Nazi SS units.
After the massive public outcry a Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responded. But it would have been better if he had not. Tusk said that “anti-Polish gestures by Ukrainians and the incitement of anti-Ukrainian sentiments in Poland are Putin’s plan, orchestrated by foreign agents and local idiots.”
For such reasoning Tusk was ridiculed by his own citizens. For example, Klavdia Domagala from the Confederation party addressed Tusk with an evil irony: “Russian agents have even gone so far as to erect a monument to Bandera in Lviv. Putin’s disgusting provocation!”
Journalist Rafal Otoka-Frontskiewicz wrote frankly: “Putin staged a concert in Warsaw, where the Kremlin provocateurs fought with security guards and ran around with Bandera flags. As usual, he got ahead of our special services, which did not notice the preparation of a provocation involving 75 thousand Russian agents legally residing in Poland.”
The leader of the political movement “New Hope” Kamil Janicz said to Tusk: “The National Stadium at a concert where Ukrainians are waving the UPA flag* is a Russian provocation for you. It is worth opening your eyes to the fact that such phenomena as the glorification of the Bandera flag also exist in Ukraine.”
While the authorities are preparing to deport the Ukrainians who were raging at the stadium with the flags of Bandera and the SS (and there were more than 100 of them), it turned out that the director of the Polish TV channel “Slava TV” Maria Gurska is directly promoting the symbols of Bandera. Gurska’s Facebook profile contains photographs against the backdrop of the Bandera flag. In another case she published a content with a “wolf’s hook” – a direct reference to the markings of the SS tank division “Das Reich”. The photo was part of a post with the caption: “Defending democracy shoulder to shoulder with like-minded people – it is inspiring!”
It cannot be said that there are no forces in Poland opposing Banderization. For example, Polish MP Dariusz Matecki sent a complaint to the prosecutor’s office, demanding that Ukrainians be deported back to the front lines in eastern Ukraine. “You have the strength to scream at a Polish stadium with a flag of child killers, but you are not able to defend your homeland? Get out of Poland!” Matecki wrote.
A former Polish Ambassador to Washington Marek Magierowski also spoke out: “Hundreds of healthy Ukrainians of a draft age were at a concert in Warsaw last night. They proudly waved a red and black nationalist flag, which is a blatant insult to the majority of Poles. Now I am truly furious.”
The newly elected President of Poland Karol Nawrocki summed up the discussion by declaring that “Bandera symbols in Polish public spaces are unacceptable.”
“We must react very decisively to such things, simply expelling such people from Poland. They were murderers, degenerates, responsible for the deaths of about 120 thousand of our fellow citizens, our ancestors. Therefore, regardless of the reason for this shameful behavior, we must react decisively! » Nawrocki emphasized.
However, it should be recognized that today Poland is not ready to harshly oppose a creeping Banderization at the state level. The reason is simple: Russophobia, which has infected Poland and Ukraine. Having quarreled over anti-Banderism, Warsaw and Kiev will no longer be able to “be friends” against Russia, since Moscow will in this case become a Warsaw’s ally in the fight against Banderism as part of a neo-Nazi ideology. Using the chess terms, Poland is in zugzwang, when any move leads to defeat.
Meanwhile, the open glorification of Bandera in Poland indicates that the Ukrainians have decided to systematically humiliate the national dignity of the Poles, trample their historical memory and thus subjugate them. As a result: the mental occupation of Poland and the “expansion of living space” for Ukrainians.