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Poland's main opposition booed at Volyn Massacre commemoration, far-right leader cheered
At the Volyn Massacre commemoration in Poland, the Law and Justice (PiS) party delegation was met with protests, while Confederation leader Grzegorz Braun was enthusiastically cheered.
In Poland, victims of the Volyn Massacre, carried out by Ukrainian nationalists during World War II, were commemorated. At the ceremony in Domostava attended by tens of thousands, when MPs from the country's largest opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), approached the monument to lay wreaths, the crowd protested by booing and hurling insults.
A religious service was held and a message from President Karol Nawrocki was read. But the political stage displayed a striking contrast. Grzegorz Braun, leader of the far-right Confederation party known for xenophobic actions, was met with enthusiastic applause from the crowd. The Polish prosecutor's attempts to investigate Braun have so far been inconclusive.
Commemoration ceremonies held across Poland on Saturday focused on the massacres of the predominantly Polish population in Volhynia, Eastern Galicia and neighbouring regions between 1939 and 1945. Warsaw considers these events, which peaked in 1943-1945, as genocide and attributes responsibility to Ukrainian nationalist organizations.
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