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  • Ukraine’s Parliament removes skeletons from dark closets of nation’s history
    http://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv-post-plus/ukraines-parliament-removes-skeletons-from-dark-closets-of-nations-history

    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.

    https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Choukhevytch

    • Ukraine’s Parliament Votes To Open Soviet-Era KGB Archives To Public
      http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraines-parliament-votes-open-soviet-era-kgb-archives-public-1876756

      Shortly after voting to ban both Nazi and Soviet imagery, Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted to open up the country’s archive of Soviet-era KGB files to the public, which could reveal decades’ worth of information on secret arrests, “disappearings” and the intricate operations of Ukraine’s KGB wing. The bill passed with 261 of parliament’s roughly 420 members in favor.

      Under the bill, titled “On access to the archives of the repressive organs of the communist totalitarian regime during 1917-1991,” the information would be transferred to the Institute of National Remembrance and be declassified. Reacting to the news, some social media users talked about their hopes of finding information on relatives who were persecuted by the Ukrainian KGB during the Cold War. The public will be able to submit requests for information to the Institute of National Remembrance.
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      The archives of a handful of other Soviet-era state organizations also will be declassified and made available to the public, including the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage, the Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, speculation, sabotage and malfeasance, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Cassation and the Supreme Cassation Tribunal, according to UA Position.

    • … et aussi…

      Another bill, which will likely prove to be controversial, recognizes the efforts of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and a handful of other nationalist paramilitary groups that fought both Nazi Germany and Soviet occupiers in Ukraine. The UPA is widely criticized within the Russian-speaking Ukrainian community for its cooperation with Nazi elements toward the end of World War II, when the partisan group shifted its focus away from the Nazis and toward the communist forces moving in from Russia, who at the time were in a position to dominate Ukraine.