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EU to Ukraine’s new president: please, reverse honoring of Nazi collaborator
Published: 25 February, 2010, 16:59
Edited: 05 April, 2010, 09:26
The European Parliament has called on the newly-inaugurated President of Ukraine, Victor Yanukovich, to reconsider his predecessor’s decision to award controversial nationalist leader Stepan Bandera as a national hero.
An excellent move by the EU and I hope Ukraine does exactly this. It's a good step towards improving morality within the EU thinking. However, there is still lots to do at home for the EU to address some of its member states which are glorifying the Nazis and are racist human rights abusers. On top of this in international terms, it needs to ask itself, why is it opposing UN measures that give weight to opposition of the Nazis rebirth in Europe and worldwide. The EU needs to go much further, getting its own house in order, if it is not to be viewed as a hypocrit, with low standards of morality and human rights within its borders, whilst continually preaching these essential high moral values externally. The EU needs to lead by example, not by lectures, it doesn't listen to itself.
Hopefully Yanukovich will do this but in a more fundamental way by outlawing Holocaust denial and glorifying the Nazis. This will at least allow legal action to be brought against those who continue to promote these views. But I do agree that the EU does need to get its own house in order. It spoke out against Ukraine but not against its own members who follow the same path
"Russian ministry of truth warns: Bandera nonperson, appraisal is crimethink doubleplusungood"