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February 9, 2018
The bill has sparked anger in the US and Ukraine. “We are concerned about the repercussions
this draft legislation, if enacted, could have on Poland’s strategic interests and relationships – including with the United States and Israel,” the US State Department said on January 31.
The bill also sparked anger in Ukraine for targeting Ukrainian nationalist ideology, a long- standing divisive point in the relationship between Warsaw and Kyiv. For Ukraine, nationalists
were patriots who fought for independence.
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In Poland, however, they are largely seen as mass murderers.
The bill has now worsened Poland's relationships with countries with which it has had strong and friendly ties: the US, Israel, Ukraine, as well as with the European Union, with which Warsaw feuds over the reform of the judiciary. Virtually the only voices of support for the proposed bill came from the Russian parliament, the Duma, and the pro-Russian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
