• Séimhe (sé / é)@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I’ve read a short article about it but it seems that without relevant historical knowledge it’s hard to determine. My initial impression is that the Polish president is purposely making a spectacle of the issue and rage baiting his population, and that the main beneficiary is Putin.

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      12 days ago

      Tensions between Warsaw and Kyiv have been high for days following Zelensky’s decision to name a military unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a World War II militia that Warsaw accuses of participating in massacres of Poles.

      That’s better context.

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        6 days ago

        It’s not accusation, it’s a fact… Ukraine is blocking searches for graves of killed Poles during ww2 for no reason… Still what has been found ( plenty of confirmed mass graves of Poles all age ) says it’s confirmed

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      Thank you for a little background. The story keeps going through the news cycle and I was unclear on what the fundamental problem was.