Kachinsky: EU to give a cold shoulder to Ukraine because of “saint” Bandera

Glorification of Stephan Bandera in Ukraine up to his becoming an idol and subject to “deification” can stand in the way of the country’s integration with the European Union. It was announced by leader of the ruling party of Poland “Right and Justice” Jaroslaw Kaczynski in his interview to Do Rzeczy, writes Korrespondent with reference to TVP.

According to his version, he told the same thing to President Petro Poroshenko. “This is a matter of Ukraine’s choice. I clearly said to President Poroshenko there is no way they could enter Europe with Bandera,” underscored Kaczynski.

“We cannot accept for many years Ukraine having the cult of the people who committed genocide against the Polish,” he remarked. Earlier Kaczynski also said the relations of Warsaw and Kiev are called into question.

At the same time radical nationalist groups, actively supported by the Kiev Patriarchate, exacerbate the on-going conflict even more, convincing Ukrainians that their ideology and its “prophet” – Stephan Bandera – are heaven given to Ukraine.”

As the UOJ wrote earlier, on 28 August 2016, UOC KP metropolitan of Lutsk and Volynsk Mikhail (Zinkevich) declared that Ukrainians showed love for the UPA soldiers, having beatified them, while on 1 January 2017 during the torch march in Kiev nationalists were carrying posters: “Our religion is nationalism. Our prophet is Stephan Bandera.”

Furthermore, on 10 January 2017, in Guta Peniatskaya village, Lvov region, the unknown exploded and painted with symbols of SS-Galicia division a memorial to the Polish people and concealed Jews who were burnt alive in the cathedral.

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