Poland wants to hold people accountable for spreading Bandera ideology

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has submitted to the Sejm a draft law introducing criminal liability for promoting “Bandera ideology.”

This was reported by the press service of the Polish leader’s office.

“The purpose of this amendment is to counter the spread within the Republic of Poland of false claims regarding crimes committed by members and accomplices of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera faction) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as well as other Ukrainian formations that collaborated with Nazi Germany — in particular, regarding the genocide committed against Poles in Volhynia,” the statement on the presidential website says.

Earlier it was reported that President Nawrocki would submit to the Sejm a bill on prosecuting “Bandera ideology.”

In mid-August, Nawrocki had already called for criminalizing the display of OUN-UPA symbols and introducing prison terms for this. He described the Banderites of the OUN-UPA as “murderers and perverts.”

In July, then-president Andrzej Duda signed a law declaring July 11 as the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide committed by OUN and UPA during World War II.