Leonid Bershidsky: World War II isn’t quite over for Poland and Ukraine
Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko (L) and Poland's president Andrzej Duda (C) review a military honor guard during a welcoming ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kyiv on Dec. 15, 2015.
World War II isn't quite over in what historian Timothy Snyder called the Bloodlands. The nationalist government in Poland is eager to confront Ukraine about an ethnic cleansing episode in 1943, and the Ukrainian authorities, whose own nationalism is a sometimes violent reaction to Russian aggression, are torn between glorifying the perpetrators of those crimes and apologizing to the Poles, their closest allies in Europe.
