"Ukraine Honors Nationalist Groups That Committed Ethnic..." Topic

… Cleansing And/Or Allied With The Nazis During The Second World War.

"New laws also honour controversialist nationalist groups that committed ethnic cleansing or allied with the Nazis for part of second world war

Two new laws that ban communist symbols while honouring nationalist groups that collaborated with the Nazis have come into effect in Ukraine, raising concerns that Kiev could be stifling free speech and further fragmenting the war-torn country in the rush to break ties with its Soviet past.

The first law "on the condemnation of the communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes" forbids both Soviet and Nazi symbols, making something as trivial as selling a USSR souvenir, or singing the Soviet national hymn or the Internationale, punishable by up to five years in prison for an individual and up to 10 years in prison for members of an organization…"
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Amicalement
Armand

That should question honest onlookers from the west.

The UPA were straight up horrible.

It's a neat trick to ban Nazi symbols, when the homegrown fascists don't use those symbols.

I wonder what the Polish government has to say about this, considering the UPA targeted ethnic Poles strongly.

Nazis are Nazis then and now, wonder if the 'honest joes' in the west will see it all in a clearer light now and stop supplying what will be another bad regime.