American scientist: The greeting “Glory to Ukraine” is equivalent to “Sieg Heil”
The greeting “Glory to Ukraine” was used during World War II by perpetrators of ethnic cleansing and is equivalent to the cry “Sieg Heil,” now banned in Germany.
About it writes on his blog Associate Professor at Columbia University Tariq Cyril Amar, specialist in the history of Ukraine and the former Soviet Union.
“The greeting “Glory to Ukraine” is part of the greeting “Glory to Ukraine,” which is answered with “Glory to the Heroes.” This is not a good, clean patriotic slogan. This salute to the perpetrators of the Holocaust and mass ethnic cleansing during World War II (and no, this is not a fiction of the Russian “information war”, but a historical fact).
The argument that this greeting is now being used for harmless patriotic purposes is bombastic nonsense. Why? Because the new use implies that those mass murderers who originally used it did nothing wrong not to use this greeting. It is impossible to imagine anything worse to disrespect their victims.
An analogy can be made: the Germans decided to use Sieg Heil as something reminiscent of democracy and patriotism, and claim that they forgot or did not know about its history. Absurd? Perversion? An insult to their historical victims and modern relatives? Exactly!" – states the scientist.
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