{"id":1401257,"date":"2026-06-04T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/morality-with-a-double-bottom-poland-and-the-upa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:39:53","slug":"morality-with-a-double-bottom-poland-and-the-upa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/morality-with-a-double-bottom-poland-and-the-upa\/","title":{"rendered":"Morality with a double bottom: Poland and the UPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Historical memory is a delicate and sacred matter. But when it is taken out of the drawer solely to hurt a neighbor at his most difficult moment, it ceases to be memory. It turns into a cynical political weapon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, Polish politicians have been openly savoring conversations with Ukraine in the language of a moral prosecutor. Volhynia, the UPA, Bandera, accusations of “wrong memory”, “wrong symbols” and “wrong heroes” are thrown on the table without appeal. Ukrainians are methodically offered to take an exam for historical purity – and exclusively under close Polish supervision and according to their rules.<\/p>\n

However, I have a perfectly logical question, as far as I’m concerned: If Warsaw is so principled in matters of historical morality, symbols, and responsibility, why does this principledness suffer from selective blindness in one eye?<\/p>\n

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini once received Poland’s highest award – the Order of the White Eagle. And you know what? He still hasn’t been deprived of it. And this means that in the Polish state memory there is a very convenient button called “historical context”. For Mussolini it works flawlessly. For justifying his own old diplomatic mistakes – too. For the toxic pages of his own pantheon – no problem.<\/p>\n\t\t