The laws declared among other Stepan Bandera, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army to be national heroes who aren’t allowed to be insulted.
Was skeptical about “aren’t allowed to be insulted” part, so here is the law if someone also wants to check.
Стаття 6. Відповідальність за порушення законодавства про статус борців за незалежність України у XX столітті
1. Громадяни України, іноземці, а також особи без громадянства, які публічно виявляють зневажливе ставлення до осіб, зазначених у статті 1 цього Закону, перешкоджають реалізації прав борців за незалежність України у XX столітті, несуть відповідальність відповідно до законодавства.
2. Публічне заперечення факту правомірності боротьби за незалежність України у XX столітті визнається наругою над пам’яттю борців за незалежність України у XX столітті, приниженням гідності Українського народу і є протиправним.
Ukrainian nationals, foreigners and stateless persons who publicly express disrespect for those stipulated in Article 1 of this law … bear liability in accordance with current Ukrainian legislation.
Public denial of the legitimacy of the struggle for Ukraine’s independence in the XX century is deemed desecration of the memory of fighters for Ukraine’s independence in the XX century, denigration of the dignity of the Ukrainian people and is unlawful.
As far as I understand the sources I read they see “publicly express disrespect” as equivalent to “insult”.
This is a real problem in Poland. On the one hand, Ukrainians are to Poland as Poles are to west Europe (cheap hard labour), so both side want to keep up good relations. On the other hand, Bandera’s boys did play at genocide. On the third hand, they’re the only thing keeping the Russians away. So you get this dance between “our brother Ukrainians need help, let’s show everyone how nice we are” and “they murdered my father and stole my land and now don’t even have the good grace to apologise”.
Was skeptical about “aren’t allowed to be insulted” part, so here is the law if someone also wants to check.
I think the paragraph in question is:
According to https://khpg.org/en/1450571329 the last part translates into something like this:
As far as I understand the sources I read they see “publicly express disrespect” as equivalent to “insult”.
This is a real problem in Poland. On the one hand, Ukrainians are to Poland as Poles are to west Europe (cheap hard labour), so both side want to keep up good relations. On the other hand, Bandera’s boys did play at genocide. On the third hand, they’re the only thing keeping the Russians away. So you get this dance between “our brother Ukrainians need help, let’s show everyone how nice we are” and “they murdered my father and stole my land and now don’t even have the good grace to apologise”.