KYIV – A controversial law in Poland that criminalizes the implication of Poles’ participation in Nazi war crimes and bans the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism has unnerved Kyiv, Washington and Jerusalem.
Polish President Andrzej Duda signed the law on February 7 and it came into force on March 1, according to Polish daily newspaper Wprost.
The bill – known as the amendment to the act on the Institute of National Remembrance (known by its Polish-based acronym as IPN) – makes it illegal to deny the acts of Ukrainian nationalists in 1925-1950 towards Poles and specifically refers to the atrocities in Volyn during World War II as “genocide.”