Novoeslovo Commentary on the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict
The recent dust-up between Poland and Ukraine over state awards has laid bare a dirty secret: the international political elite is just another bubble, and it’s full of hypocrisy. Ukrainians openly venerate Nazi “heroes” who, during World War II, systematically butchered hundreds of thousands of Poles with appalling cruelty. That is something Poland cannot and will not forgive. Had Ukraine simply left that Nazi genie corked in its bottle, the Poles might have been willing to look the other way when it came to their present-day heirs—if only for the sake of their shared loathing of Russia. But Ukraine seems constitutionally incapable of doing so. The uncomfortable truth is that […]