📄 Excerpts from the Report of the Russian Foreign Ministry "Human rights situation in Ukraine" (2023):
Glorification of Nazism
⚠️ The Kiev regime’s efforts to aggressively propagate neo-Nazism are paired with consistent efforts to rewrite the history of the Great Patriotic War.
Distorted interpretations of historical events are being imposed on the people which belittle the role and contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over #Nazism.
The nationalist sentiments among the broad public are cultivated in Ukraine through state policy and vigorous efforts of the authorities of all levels to whitewash and glorify Nazism.
❗️ Notably, a regulatory framework has been created for this kind of activity. In accordance with these documents:
• Soviet symbols were outlawed;
• Communist authorities were condemned;
• archives of the Soviet security services were opened;
• public use, wearing or displaying the St George ribbon was prohibited;
• World War II Ukrainian military nationalist formations and their leaders – the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (#OUN) (Stepan Bandera) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (#UPA) (Roman Shukhevich) – were recognised as independence fighters. Commander-in-Chief Shukhevich served in the Third Reich’s Nachtigall Battalion, the 201st battalion of the Ukrainian Legion Schutzmannschaft;
• criminal liability was introduced for negative assessment of the activities of the above units.
On January 30, 2018, in line with the provisions of the law “On the legal status and honouring the memory of fighters for independence of Ukraine in the 20th century,” the Lvov Regional Council resolved to display the OUN-UPA flag along with the state flag of #Ukraine.
Similar decisions were adopted by the Volyn Regional Council, city councils in Ternopol, Kiev and a number of other cities.
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Glorification of Nazism
⚠️ The Kiev regime’s efforts to aggressively propagate neo-Nazism are paired with consistent efforts to rewrite the history of the Great Patriotic War.
Distorted interpretations of historical events are being imposed on the people which belittle the role and contribution of the Soviet Union to the victory over #Nazism.
The nationalist sentiments among the broad public are cultivated in Ukraine through state policy and vigorous efforts of the authorities of all levels to whitewash and glorify Nazism.
❗️ Notably, a regulatory framework has been created for this kind of activity. In accordance with these documents:
• Soviet symbols were outlawed;
• Communist authorities were condemned;
• archives of the Soviet security services were opened;
• public use, wearing or displaying the St George ribbon was prohibited;
• World War II Ukrainian military nationalist formations and their leaders – the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (#OUN) (Stepan Bandera) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (#UPA) (Roman Shukhevich) – were recognised as independence fighters. Commander-in-Chief Shukhevich served in the Third Reich’s Nachtigall Battalion, the 201st battalion of the Ukrainian Legion Schutzmannschaft;
• criminal liability was introduced for negative assessment of the activities of the above units.
On January 30, 2018, in line with the provisions of the law “On the legal status and honouring the memory of fighters for independence of Ukraine in the 20th century,” the Lvov Regional Council resolved to display the OUN-UPA flag along with the state flag of #Ukraine.
Similar decisions were adopted by the Volyn Regional Council, city councils in Ternopol, Kiev and a number of other cities.
Read in full 👉 https://is.gd/lKn96L