Ukrainian Insurgent Army

The Holocaust is carried out on Ukrainian soil.

And you also get the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought both the Nazis and the Soviets.

Their legacy is genuinely contested to this day because there's collaboration with the Nazis and ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhynia mixed into the story.

Right, and Plokhy doesn't tidy that up.

headway made on conflict with the Ukrainian.

Poland cautiously welcomed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's five-point plan to alleviate the diplomatic situation precipitated by his earlier decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian insurgent army, UPA, which massacred many Poles during World War II.

After meeting regarding Krivik's stance toward Poland, he remarked on July 17th that the priorities are clear, all of us in Europe need good, neighborly, equal, mutually beneficial relations built on respect.

He said Ukraine was grateful for Poland's significant support since Russia's full-scale invasion, and that his administration had agreed on several key steps to address the current issues.

Historical issues are essential to the argument.

Bohemia, now primarily in Ukraine, was part of Poland between the World Wars.

During World War II, while Nazi Germany held the area, the nationalist UPA slaughtered 100,000 Polish citizens, chiefly women and children.

Bohemia and surrounding areas.

Musk said by video link, quote, "You either fight back or you die." With this declaration, Musk becomes the latest in a series of fascists honored by the Zelensky regime and the Ukrainian state.

On May 26th, Zelensky signed a decree giving one of Ukraine's special forces units the honorary title Heroes of the UPA, with the stated aim of restoring, quote, "the historical traditions of the National Army." UPA stands for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, formed in 1942 to fight under the faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, or OUN, led by Stepan Bandera, whose movement had welcomed Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

The militia of Bandera's organization took part in the Lviv pogroms of 1941, in which German forces and Ukrainian nationalists murdered thousands of Jews.

UPA fighters then murdered Poles by the tens of thousands in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, regions of pre-war Poland, beginning in 1943.

Poland's Institute of National Remembrance counts about one hundred thousand dead through 1945, taking in the Lublin region as well.

Most were women and children.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoked Zelensky's Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest decoration, on June 19th over the UPA title.

Zelensky shipped it back to Warsaw the next day by private courier.