Ukrainian nationalists seek to erase memory of WWII

Published time: November 08, 2011 10:50
Edited time: November 08, 2011 14:50
Glory Monument in Lvov, image by RT

A nationalist party in Ukraine has resorted to legal action in a bid to raze a monument to Soviet soldiers who fought and died in the west of the country during the Second World War.

­The Ukrainian press reported on Tuesday that the Republican Party had tried to revive a ruling made in the 1990s by a regional legislature ordering the removal of all Soviet monuments in the country’s westernmost – and virulently nationalist – Lvov Region. Now, the party is seeking to remove the Glory Monument in the city of Lvov. The local administration objected on the grounds that the earlier ruling is no longer valid.

Local political analysts said the initiative was a populist move designed to help the nationalists to win back the voters they lost after they attacked war veterans as they held a memory march on Victory Day on May 9 this year. The veterans say they are ready to defend the monument from any further threats, so the current initiative actually risks bringing more negative publicity to the nationalists.

Also on Tuesday, the Ukrainian media reported that the administration of the country’s capital, Kiev, was pondering renaming the city’s Frunze Street, which honors the famous Bolshevik and Red Army general Mikhail Frunze. The Kiev authorities want to return the street its old name – Kirillovskaya – which was taken from a nearby monastery. Public reaction to the news has been muted and the media reports that the decision will likely be approved.

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Roger Coze 19.11.2011 00:51

@ from Polandnot really. Haj amin al-hussieni basically called it "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and the enemy was of course the jews. Hitler got much support from islamic nations for saying the jews were the enemy and the countries that also did not like the jews, british, or commies were Hitler's allies like King Farouk and Mufti  Al-husseini.  As you said Hitler wanted to bring Ancient back and ancient for Germany blonde hair blue eyes. Hitler also wanted a super city called Germania ,which is what the land that is now known as Germany was called during roman time. This idea was not Hitler's though since Hitler looked up to Mussolini and Mussolini wanted a new roman empire. This is also shown in Hitler ordering construction as a new German replica of the Pantheon ,it was never finished.

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from Poland (unregistered) 17.11.2011 12:21

Actually guys You pay too much attention to what Hitler said because for him in reality everyone was Aryan whom he liked - without and deeper sense, reason or logic. This is why Croatian which collaborated stopped being Slavs - they became ancient Illyrians, Slovaks stopped from being Slavs they became ancient Dacians, Bulgarians stopped being Slavs they became ancient Thracians and the Japanese stopped being Asians at all - they became Honorary Arians and actually Europeans who crossed through Asia and Korean Strait and thus because of their long journey they became "asianized" by looks but still Aryan. But what You expect form a guy who said that every Aryan should be tall, blond with blue eyes while himself was a midget with black hair and eyes like two charcoals?

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Roger Coze 16.11.2011 04:14

@ Korz53Yes I do relize I was wrong about Poland. This slave race would not make any sense. Why would the children of the Aryan race , or what was then called the MASTER RACE, be enslaved? The german settlements in Russia were supposed to be filled with veterans from peasant families who were supposed to marry peasant women (natives) for blood and soil to work. How would it look if Hitler enslaved children of high ranking party members ,former Waffen SS members ,and veterans? He gave land to people with nothing and that still fought for Germany and you are going to say he thought anyone in the land was inferior? He encouraged GERMAN VETERANS to marry peasant natives and you think he hated them? The military is the most honourable thing a person can do and Hitler relized that ,and these men that he considered Germany's best were supposed to marry Ukrainians and Poles yet you doubt them. The children of veterans, Aryans, waffen SS, or high ranking party members would never be enslave in Nazi Germany ,ever.

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