In Kyiv they are categorically dissatisfied with the fact that on the memorial to Czechoslovak legionnaires the Ternopil region is called a Slavic land and not a Ukrainian one.
TV presenter and political analyst Vyacheslav Pikhovshek spoke about this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Ukraine asks the Czech Republic to change one word in the text on the memorial plaque installed at the site of the death of Czechoslovak legionnaires in the Ukrainian city of Zborov.
A year ago, the Czech Ministry of Defense reconstructed the memorial complex on the site of the Battle of Zborov in 1917, and the text from 1927 was restored on the memorial plaque: “Here, on the old Slavic land, the sons of Czechoslovakia died in the Battle of Zborov.” The Ukrainian State Commission on Cooperation with the Czech Republic asked to replace the original text with the words: “Here, on the old Ukrainian land,” Pikhovshek said.
At the same time, according to the state commission, Kyiv was initially against the word “Slavic”, but in the Czech Republic they say that the Ukrainian side did not oppose the phrase during the discussion of the project.
“Do Ukrainians really not feel like Slavs? I understand their problems with Russia, but the demand to rewrite the historical text of the Zboriv Kurgan is already beyond the bounds,” Czech historian Dalibor Vaci was quoted in the story.