Ukraine’s Parliament removes skeletons from dark closets of nation’s history
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Ukraine’s Parliament has opened access to the archives of repressive Soviet agencies, banned Communist and Nazi symbols and propaganda and granted special status to all Ukrainian military organizations of the 20th Century that fought for its independence. The lawmakers also established Remembrance and Reconciliation Day in Ukraine on May 8 to commemorate victims of World War II.
The laws were passed in a series of votes on April 9. The head of the Ukrainian Institute for the National Memory, Volodymyr Viatrovych, one of the authors of the bills, called them a “decommunisational package.”
The way in which the laws were passed, however, generated controversy.
Volodymyr Yavorskyy from the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union described the procedure as in keeping with the “Soviet and Communist spirit.”
“Bills were registered in parliament only on April 3, and before that their final version wasn’t public,” he wrote on his Facebook page soon after the vote. “I am sure 99 percent of people haven’t even read what was banned. I don’t even speak of the deputies.”
Oleksander Vilkul, one of the leaders of the Opposition Bloc party, also criticized the laws. He promised to “to protect our veterans”, and demanded that “the real decentralization” should be provided for every community to decide what days to celebrate and what monuments to erect.
Ukrainian lawmakers has passed the law that opens the access to the archives of 1917-1991 years of the repressive bodies of the communist regime.
Beaucoup, beaucoup de chose dans cette « loi de décommunisation »…
• interdiction de la propagande communiste,
• interdiction de la propagande nazie,
• ouverture des archives de la répression par le régime communiste,
• jour férié le 8 mai (fête du souvenir et de la réconciliation…)
• jour férié le 9 mai (victoire sur le nazisme)
• statut d’ancien combattant (et pension) pour toutes les armées ayant lutté pour l’indépendance de l’Ukraine, y compris l’OUN et l’UPA
OUN
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_des_nationalistes_ukrainiens
UPA
►https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armée_insurrectionnelle_ukrainienne
The legislation was initiated by Yuriy Shukhevych, lawmaker from the Radical Party and son of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army leader Roman Shukhevych.