For a casual observer of the current historical grievance controversy between Poland and Ukraine, the controversy may seem more than a bit bizarre. In terms of the present and the foreseeable future, it appears obvious that Poland’s and Ukraine’s geopolitical interests could not be more closely aligned: it is in the interest of both that Ukraine defeat Russia’s aggression and then that it, along with Poland, check and withstand any future Russian attempts at imperialist subversion, expansion or related mischief. And yet the obvious seems to escape notice, at least in Poland.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The controversy arose when the Ukrainian Army’s Special Operations Center North chose to adopt the name “Heroes of UPA” (the Ukrainian Partisan [or Insurgent] Army). As has happened in the case of countless other units of the Ukrainian army that have during the last several years of war elected to adopt a historical name, Special Operations Center North had to ask Ukraine’s president for a formal decree of name designation, which President Zelensky issued in a brief ceremony with that Center’s officers and soldiers. That simple act was then used in Ukraine’s neighbor to the west to create what some have called a tsunami of grievance and offense Everyone from Poland’s president Karol Nawrocki… to innumerable politicians and public figures, including former president Lech Walesa, have joined in the chorus of condemnation and denunciation of “UPA bandits and killers.”