The Senate Of Poland

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The bill from consideration at the meeting of the diet taken on the initiative of the head of the Senate Stanislav Karchevsky.

The Senate of Poland still withdrew from Parliament a bill banning the promotion of communism, in which the ban extended also, and “Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism.”

This informs the newspaper Nasz Dziennik.

About this newspaper reported a Senator from the ruling party “law and Justice” (PiS) Jerzy Czerwinski, who is the author of the amendment that extends the concept of a totalitarian system in “Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism.” He noted that the bill from consideration at the meeting of the diet taken on the initiative of the head of the Senate Stanislav Karchevsky.

As reported, in mid-December last year, the Senate bill was withdrawn from the agenda of the lower house of the Polish Parliament and sent back for revision to the Senate.

In February, the PiS senators were unwilling to support the initiative of the head of the Senate Marek Kurchevskogo about the opinion of the Sejm of the bill.

As passed by the Agency in the draft law there is a definition that “totalitarian systems, is considered, in particular, fascism, German Nazism, Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalism, Prussian, Russian and German militarism”. Thus, persons, organizations or events that symbolize communism or another totalitarian regime, not “can be considered to be monuments.”

A bill like this caused protests among the national minorities of Poland and representatives of the opposition parties. During the discussion of this issue at the Commission on national and ethnic minorities of the Sejm of RP they noted that this could lead to “war of monuments”.

The Polish experts emphasized that, for example, the term “Ukrainian nationalism” can be interpreted very widely. Consequently, this can lead to absurd initiatives of the dismantling of many monuments, including the monument to Taras Shevchenko.