Poland's Presidential Office defended why Mussolini, Catherine the Great, and Gerhard Schröder still hold the Order of the White Eagle while Zelensky's was revoked: The first two are dead and Poland doesn't revoke posthumously. Schröder — despite his pro-Putin ties — "never insulted the Polish nation as overtly" as Zelensky did by naming a Ukrainian unit after UPA "heroes" and then mailing the medal back.