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COMMENT: A new law passed by the Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) bestows entitlements on surviving members of the OUN and its military wing, the UPA.
Furthermore, the law makes it illegal to criticize those Third Reich allies in their activities on behalf of Nazi Germany–it is those activities that constituted Ukraine’s drive for “independence.”
“The state acknowledges that the fighters for Ukraine’s independence played an important role in reinstating the country’s statehood declared on Aug. 24, 1991,” the law runs.
In compliance with the law, the government will provide social guarantees and bestow honors on OUN-UPA fighters.
“Public denunciation of the role of OUN-UPA in restoring the independence of Ukraine is illegal,” the law says.
Oh look: Kiev is about to pass a law “on the condemnation of the communist and nationalist-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and ban on the propaganda of their symbols” and yet a “section of article 436 of the criminal cade, which forbids “denying or justifying” the crimes of fascism, the Waffen-SS or those who “cooperated with the fascist occupants,” has been removed, leaving only a ban on using “symbols of the Nazi totalitarian regime”. Imagine that:
“Presumably now historians can be arrested for denying the heroism of [nationalist] Stepan Bandera or the father of the introducer of the bill, [UPA leader] Roman Shukheyvch”
Here’s an article about how Ukraine’s new “anti-communism” laws are basically being used by the Kiev government as the political equivalent of a shiny objects designed to condemn and distorting the horrors of the past in order to distract the rabble from the horrors of the present:
In case you missed it:
Yep, the anti-Nazi (except for the Wolfsangel) provisions to Ukraine’s new anti-ideology laws were only added as afterthought to “garner a wider spectrum of bipartisan support”. It’s about priorities. Horrible priorities.
Look over there everyone! A shiny object!
Now what was everyone all upset about again?
The recent decision of the Verkhovna Rada to recognize the Ukrainian Insurgent Army fighters, well known to everyone here, in Poland, as mass killers of thousands of our compatriots in Wolyn and Galicia,
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1234328
as the country’s freedom fighters
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet
has provoked great indignation, especially among those who suffered from UPA-OUN Nazis’ atrocities. And our EU leaders must realize at last that such honoring of the Nazi collaborators makes our further cooperation with Ukraine practically impossible now.
“As Ukraine advances on the difficult road to full democracy, we strongly urge the nation’s government to refrain from any measure that preempts or censors discussion or politicizes the study of history,” the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement: