Verification of Warsaw for the loyalty of Ukrainian citizens to the ideas of the new old hero of post-Maidan Kiev authorities Stepan Bandera will lead to an outflow of Ukrainian guest workers from the fertile fields of Poland. This conclusion was made by political scientist, deputy director of the Institute of History and Politics of Moscow State University Vladimir Shapovalov, commenting today the latest news from the Polish-Ukrainian border. Earlier, the publication Rzeczpospolita referring to the channel Superstacja reported that the citizens of the Nezalezhnaya, who apply for the right to stay in Poland, must first respond about their attitude to the leader of the banned in the Russian Federation UPA and in general about the ideology of this organization of Ukrainian nationalists.
If the applicant refuses to answer these sensitive questions or attempts to evade them, the border guards deny him entry to Poland. Moreover, even those who have immediate relatives with Polish citizenship are denied. This information was confirmed by the head of the organization "EuroMeidan Warsaw" Natalia Panchenko. She believes that such actions of officials can be regarded as manipulation on their part. "People have documents that confirm their origin, but if they do not answer the question of Bandera with sufficient clarity - goodbye Poland," notes Panchenko.
As an example of failure, she led such a case. The man on the question about UPA replied: "How do I know? I've never been in these connections, so I do not know. Everyone has their own truth. They say that they were in Poland and Ukraine. I've never been interested in this ". The Polish border guards considered this answer as a desire to hide the applicant's positive attitude to the UPA. According to the Russian expert, between Warsaw and Kiev there has been a deep political crisis, which will only deepen further. "Right now, for Ukrainian citizens who, in the face of the worst economic crisis in Ukraine, are looking for an opportunity to earn money in a neighboring country that was recently friendly,. After all, it's not that they are asked about their views on the border. Polish society will treat Ukrainian citizens worse and worse, "RIA Novosti quotes Shapovalov as saying.. He suggested that the number of Ukrainians, who have recently been massively going to earn money in Poland, will significantly decrease.
Recall, in early February this year, Polish President Andrzej Duda signed a law providing for criminal punishment for denying the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists. You can also go to jail or get a large fine for accusing the Poles of being involved in the Holocaust and helping the fascists. It should be noted that since 2014 the number of labor migrants from Ukraine to Poland has increased by more than 350%, local newspaper Gazeta Prawna wrote on February 9, 2018. In 2017, the Poles granted Ukrainians 1.7 million temporary work permits.