The EU Russophobes may wonder why they can’t get their Ukraine proxy to fight Russia without the embarrassment of the ‘Nazi in the closet’ repeatedly making its appearance. However, yesterday they stipulated that they objected to the appearance, without denouncing the actual neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine.
The European Parliament added an amendment to their resolution in support of Ukraine’s accession to the EU and its fight against Russia, stipulating that Kiev’s recent decision to honor the infamous Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)—notorious for its WWII slaughter of Polish and Jewish civilians in the Volhynia Massacre—was an “unnecessary and unprovoked escalation” showing “disregard for Polish sensitivities” that “undermines neighborly relations” and is “not in line with European values.” The sponsor of the amendment, Polish MEP Andrzej Halicki, explained, according to Notes From Poland: “It’s a very strong signal. It’s a warning to Ukrainian authorities not to create bad emotions and not to act against European values.”
Following this action, Polish President Karol Nawrocki met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s acting president. Zelenskyy posted that it was “an important and necessary conversation” and that it lasted more than an hour. They were not able to report any result, only that they agreed to meet again.
It did not help matters when Kiev recently attacked the head of the Polish President’s office, Zbigniew Bogucki. He had, in bringing up Zelenskyy’s glorification of the UPA, used the name of the area at the time of the massacres—Eastern Lesser Poland. Kiev tried to change the subject, accusing Bogucki of seeking to reclaim the territory. It was viewed as adding insult to injury.
Also, earlier in the week, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) brought another skeleton out of the closet, by releasing declassified documents which finally identified the UPA commander who operated as “Klim Savur” and “Okhrym” as one Dmitry Klyachkovsky. They identified him as one of the principal architects of the massacre of Poles. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the released document was a reminder to Warsaw that Poland is presently arming “the successors of the murderers of their own ancestors.”
