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Poland and Ukraine have clashed again over their second World War history, a period of bloody and disputed events that threatens to poison a key eastern alliance against a belligerent Russia.

Ukraine’s 2014 revolution and subsequent conflict with Moscow, and the election of the populist Law and Justice party in Poland in 2015, stirred nationalism in both countries and recrimination over how they treat the grim legacy of the 1940s.

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