Poland

On 26th May 2026, Poland’s head of state cabinet blasts Zelensky for honouring a WWII unit by naming one of his units currently engaged on the Russian front after “Heroes of UPA”. The WWII unit in question is UPA, or the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. More details will be provided later in the article, but here is the primer: UPA is a Nazi-aligned group that was responsible for the barbaric murder and torture of some 100,000 Polish civilians in 1943-45. ...

My name is Maxwell Jensen. I was born and raised in Norway, but my story begins in Poland. My father was a naval officer from Gdańsk who sought asylum in Norway in 1986, and my mother immigrated from Zambrów in 1996. The goal here is to share some insights that might be relevant to Norwegians, or really, anyone who finds multicultural exchanges interesting. We all know we live in a world of global exchange – not just of goods, but of ideas and culture. With this short essay, I hope to offer some insights and constructive criticism that everyone can use to expand their worldview. While I don’t believe that simply importing people of fundamentally incompatible cultures constitutes a valid social policy, I do believe every culture offers at least one thing that can widen our perception of the world for the better. And let me be clear, this is a two-way street: my life in Norway has had a formative, profoundly positive impact on how I view the world, which I will get into later. ...