Ukrainian schismatics consecrated a monument to Bandera executioners at the Jewish cemetery
The head of the non-canonical “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” Epifaniy (Dumenko) and the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Svyatoslav Shevchuk consecrated a memorial cross to OUN-UPA militants at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Sambir, Lviv region.
This was reported on the official website of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For us to have Ukraine today, someone had to pay a lot for it. It is these 17 young guys who tell us with their bones... And their word is very interesting - a word that destroys any cliche of communist propaganda, which to this day wants to distort the desire of Ukrainians to have their own state. Members of the OUN-UPA who died at the hands of the very murderers who caused one of the greatest crimes of mankind - the Holocaust. And they rest in the old Jewish cemetery here in Sambir,” Shevchuk raves.
The incident caused indignation among the chairman of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, who drew special attention to the fact that the chief rabbi of Ukraine, Yakov Dov Bleich, also took part in honoring the Nazi collaborators.
“Yesterday, the head of the UGCC Svyatoslav, Metropolitan Epifaniy of the OCU, Chief Rabbi Yakov Dov Bleich, the Canadian Ambassador, the leadership of the city and region opened and consecrated a monument to the heroes of the OUN-UPA at the Sambira Jewish cemetery. The monument is dedicated to the people who organized a pogrom against Jews in Sambir in July 1941, during which about 100 people were killed.
Then these people, in the ranks of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, participated in the mass murder of 1200 Jews of Sambir, who were buried in this very cemetery. Locals believe that 17 OUN members are also buried in the cemetery. Several years ago, the local community erected three large crosses here in their honor.
The new monument was erected as part of a deal under which local authorities agreed to remove illegally erected crosses in exchange for the construction of an OUN-UPA monument. It can be said that one outrage was replaced by another outrage.
But that didn't work either. Yesterday only one of the three crosses was removed, and today local activists announced that they are installing a concrete cross in place of the wooden one. The construction of the OUN-UPA monument was financed by the Canadian philanthropist, head of the Ukrainian-Jewish Meeting organization James Temerty,” he said in Facebook.
Let us note that in July of the same year, on the so-called Walk of Fame in Sambir, a monument was unveiled to the leader of the Poltava OUN cell and the organizer of the auxiliary police during the German occupiers, Zenovy Tershavetsky, who became “famous” for the murder of 8 thousand Poltava Jews, as well as the mass executions of Poles and Ukrainians.
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