Stepan Bandera is haunting the Ukraine War and Polish elections

For the last several months, relations between Ukraine and Poland — one of Ukraine’s main supporters in its war with Russia — have been unusually strained. The trigger for renewed mutual recriminations was the decision in June by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to name a Ukrainian military unit after the “Heroes of the UPA,” which was the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) during WWII. Polish President Karol Nawrocki immediately reacted to this honoring of the OUN-UPA by revoking the Order of the White Eagle award — recognizing P