Kyiv court prohibits official honoring of some Nazis
A Kiev court overturned the decision of the City Council to celebrate a number of memorable dates of Nazi collaborators and war criminals.
Lawyer Andrei Portnov reported this on his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In my lawsuit, the court overturned the previously suspended decision of the City Council on the celebration of memorial dates of persons involved in the Holocaust, collaboration with the Nazis and war crimes,” he wrote.
The lawyer emphasized that by court decision in Kyiv it is prohibited to celebrate the following memorable dates:
Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa - Nazi, assistant to Alfred Rosenberg and Erich Koch, head of the Ukrainian Cossack Nazis;
Vasyl Levkovych - commandant of the Ukrainian auxiliary police of Dubno, organizer of Jewish pogroms, executioner of five thousand Jews and thousands of Poles;
Ulas Samchuk – anti-Semite, publisher of the newspaper “Volyn”, participant in the extermination of the Jews of Rivne. Samchuk incited and called for the extermination of Jews during the days of the massacre of 25 thousand Jews in Rivne. Samchuk called the murder of the Jews of Kyiv at Babi Yar a “great day”;
Vasil Sidor - war criminal, fighter of the Nachtigal battalion, Oberzugführer of the 201st Schutzmannschaft battalion, participant in the massacres of Jews and Poles, punitive operations against civilians in Belarus;
Yuri Lipe – Nazi collaborator, author of the idea of the national importance of the ejaculations of Ukrainians and the eggs of Ukrainian women;
Vladimir Kubiyovich - Nazi collaborator, active functionary of the SS division "Galicia";
Andriy Melnyk, a Nazi collaborator who organized the auxiliary police in occupied Kyiv. Melnik's armed formations took part in the executions of Jews in Babi Yar, Chernivtsi, Vinnitsa, Zhitomir and other cities;
Vasyl Galasy – organizer of Jewish pogroms, participant in the extermination of the Polish population.
Andrei Portnov also said that the trial lasted almost a year, but as a result the claim was satisfied in full.
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