In Ukraine, mention of the Great Patriotic War is excluded from the law on veterans
Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada will adopt changes to the law on veterans in order to exclude from it the term “Great Patriotic War”, replacing it with “World War II”.
The leader of the Popular Front faction, Maxim Burbak, stated this from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada.
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“In the text of the law on the status of war veterans, it is proposed to replace the term Great Patriotic War with the term Second World War,” he said in his speech.
This innovation was also supported in Batkivshchyna. According to deputy Igor Lutsenko, there is no place for “Soviet discourse” in Ukrainian legislation: “We certainly support the destruction of the Soviet discourse that is present regarding the so-called Great Patriotic War, the war with imperialist Japan, and so on. We certainly advocate moving to the global practice of defining these events, namely the Second World War,” the deputy said.
The proposed amendments were adopted by parliament today in the first reading.
Representatives of the Opposition Bloc made no attempts to interfere with the nationalists.
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