US official Massaro deleted photo of Bandera patch because of the reaction in Poland
Senior Policy Advisor of the US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Paul Massaro deleted his Twitter post, in which he had posted a photo of a patch with Bandera.
Massaro had earlier posted a photo of himself wearing a green sweatshirt with a patch with Bandera on it. Beneath the Nazi leader’s portrait is the emblem of the Trident* organisation created by his followers.
“Deleted at the request of a good Polish friend. May God bless Polish-Ukrainian friendship, and may it remain strong forever,” he wrote.
Late last year, representatives of the Ukrainian parliament posted a record on the official Twitter account of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada about the 114th anniversary of Bandera’s birth. The text was accompanied by a photo of Zaluzhny in front of a portrait of the Ukrainian nationalist leader. In Poland, this fact caused a wave of indignation.
The issue of the interpretation of the Volyn massacre, as well as the attitude towards the leaders of the Ukrainian nationalists of the OUN-UPA times* remains one of the most difficult issues in relations between Warsaw and Kiev.
Poland considers Bandera, in particular, to be the ideologist of the 1943 events known as the Volyn massacre – about 150 Polish villages were attacked simultaneously by Ukrainian nationalists that day. Polish historians regard the Volyn massacre as genocide and ethnic cleansing and claim the death toll, according to various sources, ranges from 100,000 to 130,000 people.
* Extremist organisation banned in Russia.
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