Vyatrovich’s successor called Bandera a “hero forever” and declared war on the “false” red stars
Stepan Bandera and his accomplices, who fought on the side of Nazi Germany against the “Soviet occupier,” will forever remain national heroes for the residents of Western Ukraine.
The new head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Anton Drobovich, stated this on the Iceland TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In 1939, the Bolsheviks were occupiers. They came and killed the intelligentsia - people who were ready to defend Ukraine with arms in their hands, who had been dreaming about Ukraine since the beginning of the century.
All the people who came from Bolshevik-occupied Western Ukraine later sided with the Germans - they cannot be considered collaborators. If someone has committed a war crime, he is a war criminal. But you cannot be a collaborator if you are fighting against another occupier.
That is, this is simply a violation of logic. Soviet propaganda said: “Here are Western Ukrainian collaborators” - this is generally complete nonsense.
Whatever directives you accept, Bandera will still be honored in Western Ukraine. Because it has become part of the ethnic group of society, part of the memory, which is tightly intertwined with identity,” the propagandist claims.
Drobovich also admired the success of the work of his predecessor, the former head of the Institute of National Memory of Ukraine Vladimir Vyatrovich, and proclaimed the continuation of the course of decommunization.
“For many people, red five-pointed stars were a norm that was part of life, and they were part of a country that was quite successful at lying. And this is what also needs to be done as part of decommunization. And, moreover, it seems to me that this, in general, is the most important thing.
The biggest achievement of the previous team was a package of laws on decommunization. This is a very dangerous thing for Russia, because if we succeed in decommunization, it will be such an example for Russia...
I am not inclined to immediately criticize the achievements of the Institute of National Memory. I had such a temptation, but when I read the materials, I lost it. In general, from the point of view of what the institute has done, Vladimir Vyatrovich has done a very good job,” the Russophobe concluded.
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