Warsaw will necessarily react to the proposal of the Verkhovna Rada deputies to make the red-black flag of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (OUN-UPA, the organization is banned in the Russian Federation) a state symbol. This opinion was expressed by the Polish political scientist Marek Serant "Vesti" on Thursday, March 29. "At a minimum, this step can be submitted as a manifestation of totalitarianism.

In addition, communication between countries may deteriorate, and Poland has plenty of opportunities for this - for example, it can reduce economic cooperation and refuse to support Ukraine at the international level, and the attitude towards Ukrainians within Poland can also change, "the political scientist believes..

The initiators of the hanging of the OUN flag were the deputies from the nationalist party "Freedom". On the eve of the relevant bill is registered on the parliament's website.

"He was one of the symbols of the revolution of dignity. And so we propose at the state level to approve its application. This has already been done by a number of local, in particular, regional councils throughout Ukraine. The turn of the highest legislative body of the state has come, "- explained one of the authors of the document" liberator "Andrei Ilyenko. His words lead publication Kiivskii Telegraf.

In the Rogyshchensky district council in the Volyn region, another "liberator" Alexander Nikonchuk said that the ban of the "Bandera ideology" in Poland - the denial of the right of Ukrainians to statehood and national dignity. "Red-black flag is a symbol of the fact that Ukrainians have their own history and their heroes. This is our response to the unfriendly steps of Warsaw, "- quotes RAN" Novosti ". Earlier, the flag of Ukrainian nationalists was allowed to use the Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zhytomyr city councils on the days of memorable dates along with the Zhovto-blakit priory, Khmelnytsky region. In modern post-Maidan Ukraine, they are actively trying to forget that the punitive forces from the OUN-UPA during the Great Patriotic War committed the most brutal atrocities, sometimes more terrible than the German invaders. Banderovtsy tortured and killed tens of thousands of civilians, most of the women, children and the elderly in the villages of Belarus, Ukraine, Poland. Ukrainian nationalists carried out punitive operations, burning entire villages, in Khatyn, Babi Yar, Lvov, in Volhynia.