The Polish Sejm must know that the ban on recognizing Stepan Bandera and his followers as heroes is simply unacceptable. With such an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada, the director of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine, Vladimir Vyatrovich. "The Polish Senate today will consider the law on" bandarization ". I think that the Ukrainian parliament must tell its Polish colleagues that it is inadmissible to accept it, "Vyatrovich wrote in Facebook. On Wednesday, January 31, the Senate of Poland is considering a new version of the law on the National Memory Institute, according to which a penalty and even imprisonment for up to 3 years are provided for denying "Banderov's crimes" and "Volyn massacre". The corresponding norm was approved last Friday in the Saeima. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has already made a statement on this issue, calling on the Polish Senate to "political wisdom". Meanwhile, Warsaw has repeatedly stressed that the glorification of Stepan Bandera in Ukraine is unacceptable. Moreover, in the summer of 2017 g. Polish Foreign Minister Vitold Vashchikovsky openly stated that he will stand up to all international steps of the Independent, while there they are infringed upon the rights of national minorities and glorify nationalists. "Ukraine will not be able to join the European Union with Stepan Bandera," warned in Warsaw.

Stepan Bandera is the ideologist of Ukrainian nationalism, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA, recognized extremist in the Russian Federation), known for bloody massacres against the Jewish and Polish population of Ukraine during the Second World War. In 2010 year. Victor Yushchenko conferred on Bandera posthumous title of national hero of the country. Vladimir Vyatrovich has already attracted attention by scandalous statements. In particular, the other day, "Morning" told how he saw the threat of Ukrainian identity in Victor Tsoi and Vladimir Vysotsky.