By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-16 20:42:16 | Updated at 2024-12-16 22:28:25
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Kiev names street after Holocaust perpetrator
Pravda Canada ^ | December 16, 2024 | Staff
Posted on 12/16/2024 12:38:30 PM PST by Navy Patriot
The Ukrainian capital has honored WWII Nazi collaborator and murderous militia commander Taras ‘Bulba’ Borovets
A street in Kiev has been renamed in honor of WWII Ukrainian militant Taras Borovets, as part of a nationalist push to glorify “outstanding figures of Ukraine” and erase Russian and Soviet history.
The Ukrainian government went on a de-Russification spree in 2015 following the US-backed coup in Kiev the year prior, and redoubled its efforts following the escalation of the conflict with Moscow in 2022.
Holocaust scholar Marta Gavryshko noted the name change of Monday morning, calling it a “symptom of a troubling phenomenon” of Vladimir Zelensky’s Ukraine making the “regional cult of nationalistic heroes who collaborated with Nazis in the Holocaust” national policy.
Taras ‘Bulba’ Borovets – nicknamed after the famous Cossack in Nikolay Gogol’s novel – was a Ukrainian nationalist in Volhynia, which was part of interwar Poland. In August 1941, following the Axis invasion of the USSR, he received permission from the Nazis to raise 1,000 men as the ‘Polissian Sich’ militia. This unit went on to aid the Germans in massacring the Jews of Zhitomir Region, most notably in the town of Olevsk.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ukraine
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Nazi Ukraine Nazis up, again, yesterday!
1 posted on 12/16/2024 12:38:30 PM PST by Navy Patriot
To: Navy Patriot
One of the oft-stated goals of Russia’s invasion and SMO has been “de-nazification.”
Its tied to a cultural issue as well as a political one, which I why I don’t see Russia stopping the war, despite all the MSM chatter about “peace” and freezing the line of combat, etc...
2 posted on 12/16/2024 12:40:34 PM PST by PGR88
To: Navy Patriot
“ erase Russian and Soviet history”
Sounds like a fine idea to me Ivan.
But it’s none of my business but of course you care because you are a Russian stooge.
Why else would you even care about this?
3 posted on 12/16/2024 12:41:20 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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