The Communist Party of Poland (KPP) has strongly condemned the glorification of fascist organizations and Nazi collaborators in Ukraine, denouncing a decision by local authorities in Lviv to designate 2027 as a year commemorating criminal Roman Shukhevych, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Oleh Olzhych.
In a statement published on November 7, the KPP denounced the rehabilitation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), whose members participated in massacres of Polish civilians and other atrocities during the Second World War.
The Polish communists recalled the mass killings committed in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia in 1943–1944, rejecting attempts to justify these crimes under the pretext of national liberation. “There is no road to freedom through the torture and murder of civilians, including children,” the party stressed.
The KPP also condemned the honoring of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a formation that served Nazi Germany, and criticized the obstacles faced by Poland in exhuming and commemorating victims of wartime massacres.
Warning against what it described as growing fascist tendencies, political repression and historical revisionism in Ukraine, the party demanded that Ukrainian authorities acknowledge past atrocities, reverse decisions glorifying fascist formations and distance themselves from contemporary neo-fascist movements.
The KPP concluded that genuine reconciliation between the Polish and Ukrainian peoples would remain impossible without an honest reckoning with the country's wartime history.
The KPP also condemned the honoring of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a formation that served Nazi Germany, and criticized the obstacles faced by Poland in exhuming and commemorating victims of wartime massacres.
Warning against what it described as growing fascist tendencies, political repression and historical revisionism in Ukraine, the party demanded that Ukrainian authorities acknowledge past atrocities, reverse decisions glorifying fascist formations and distance themselves from contemporary neo-fascist movements.
The KPP concluded that genuine reconciliation between the Polish and Ukrainian peoples would remain impossible without an honest reckoning with the country's wartime history.
