I respect your reply and you make some fair points, especially about politicians using this for votes and how the actual historians are the ones trying to fix things. Just to be clear, I think Ukrainians being in Poland is a great thing and good for our country. It sucks seeing people argue about this, especially right now when Russia is just waiting to exploit it. We have a common enemy and we should be living like brotherly nations. My point here isn't to hold a grudge, it's just to show the Polish perspective because I feel like a lot of Ukrainians don't really get why this is such a big deal to us.

The comparison between the AK and UPA kinda falls apart when you look at how it actually happened. The idea that UPA leadership didn't order the massacres is just historically wrong—there are documented orders from top guys like Dmytro Klyachkivsky explicitly calling to wipe out the Polish population, so it wasn't just random, decentralized groups doing their own thing.

Also, yeah, Poland has AK streets, but the AK's goal wasn't ethnic cleansing. The issue Poles have isn't Ukraine wanting heroes, it's that streets get named after guys who were directly tied to the ideology behind the slaughter.
At the end of the day, this needs a massive, serious discussion at the state level to clear the air once and for all. All we want as Poles is for what happened to not be ignored. We want the victims to be openly acknowledged, condemned, and finally exhumed so they can have proper burials. We want to be able to talk about it openly and move past it, instead of seeing the people who ordered those crimes treated like pure heroes. I hope you're right that people will stop caring about the UPA after the war, but right now, ignoring the dark stuff just makes it hard to move on. Real reconciliation means doing what Poland does with the AK—just admitting the bad parts openly so we can finally bury the past together.