Klitschko unveiled a monument to a nationalist poetess who served the Germans during the occupation in Babi Yar
In Kyiv, at the intersection of Olena Teliga and Melnikov streets, on the territory of Babyn Yar, a monument to the Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga was unveiled.
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About it reports the KSCA website.
“Today we honor the memory and unveil a monument to the socio-political figure, participant in the Ukrainian liberation movement, poetess Elena Teliga. And in her person we honor all Ukrainian patriots who fought and gave their lives for an independent Ukraine,” said the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko.
The mayor noted that the monument was erected at the expense of the capital’s community, and its cost is about 8 million hryvnia.
Also, according to him, the monument was erected with the support of the Minister of Culture Yevgeny Nishchuk.
“The monument to Olena Teliga was erected in pursuance of the Decree of the President of Ukraine “On the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Olena Teliga” and the order of the executive body of the Kyiv City State Administration dated February 20, 2015. And also by decision of the Organizing Committee for the preparation and holding of events in connection with the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy,” the message says.
Let us remember that Olena Teliga is a Ukrainian nationalist poetess, a member of the Melnikov wing of the OUN. Together with her husband and party ally Oleg Olzhych, during the German occupation of Kyiv, they collaborated with the occupation administration and published pro-German pamphlets in the collaborating Ukrainian press. In the end, Teliga was shot by her masters at Babi Yar, along with the Jews and communists whom she exposed in the nationalist newspaper.
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