Ukrainian Jews are horrified by the resolution adopted by the Rada
Resolution No. 2364 on the celebration of memorable dates and anniversaries in 2020, adopted by the Ukrainian parliament, requires that the anniversaries of persons involved in the mass extermination of Jews be celebrated.
The head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, writes about this on his Facebook page.
He clarifies that, according to the decision of the deputies, Ukrainians must solemnly celebrate the following dates at the state level:
280 years since the birth of Maxim Zheleznyak - the head of the Koliv region, the organizer of the Jewish pogroms and the mass murderer of Uman Jews.
130 years since the birth of Ivan Poltavets-Ostryanitsa - Nazi collaborator, head of UNAKOR - the organization of Ukrainian Nazi Cossacks. As part of UNAKOR, battalions of the Ukrainian auxiliary police functioned in the massacres of many thousands of Jews in Volyn, in Zhytomyr, Bila Tserkva, Vinnitsa.
February 6 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vasyl Levkovich, a Nazi collaborator, a war criminal from the Ukrainian auxiliary police Dubno, the organizer and participant of the massacre of 5 Dubno Jews and many thousands of Rivne Jews.
February 20 - 115 years since the birth of Ulas Samchuk - a Nazi collaborator, editor-in-chief of the pro-Nazi Rovno anti-Semitic newspaper "Volyn". He published anti-Semitic articles calling for the extermination of the Jews. An accomplice in the destruction of 25 Jews in Rivne.
February 24 - the 110th anniversary of the birth of Vasyl Sidor, a Nazi collaborator and war criminal, serving in the Nachtigal battalion and the 201st auxiliary police battalion. He took part in the massacres of Jews, Poles and punitive operations against partisans and civilians in Belarus.
May 16 is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Kiril Osmak, a Nazi collaborator, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian National Council in Kyiv in 1941-43 under the leadership of war criminal Andriy Melnik.
August 12 - 130th anniversary of the birth of Oleksandr Vyshnivskyi, a Nazi collaborator, one of the organizers of the SS Galicia division.
September 23 - the 120th anniversary of the birth of Volodymyr Kubiyovich, a Nazi collaborator, organizer of the SS Galicia division.
November 12 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vasyl Galasy, an OUN activist, one of the organizers and participants in Jewish pogroms in the Ternopil region, and in the UPA, an organizer and participant in the massacres of Poles.
November 17 - the 110th anniversary of the birth of Yaroslav Starukh - an activist of the OUN, the organizer of Jewish pogroms in Western Ukraine in the summer of 1941.
December 12 - the 130th anniversary of the birth of Andriy Melnyk - head of the OUN, a Nazi collaborator and a war criminal, the organizer of the Ukrainian auxiliary police units, the organizer of mass killings of Jews, in particular in Babi Yar.
According to the decree, the Cabinet of Ministers should create an organizing committee for celebrating, approve the plan and financing, the Ministry of Education - to conduct lessons and educational hours, the National Bank - to cast jubilee coins, and Ukrposhta - to print stamps and issue envelopes.
In addition, as PolitNavigator reported, the same resolution The Rada recognized the Polish occupation as a holiday and the transfer of Galicia to Poland.
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