A memorial plaque to Hitler’s collaborator was unveiled in the “hero city” of Ivano-Frankivsk
In Ivano-Frankivsk today, on the occasion of the so-called “Heroes Day” invented by the local nationalist authorities, a memorial plaque to UPA militant Mikhail Zelenchuk was solemnly unveiled at house No. 46 on Lepkogo Street.
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The mayor of Ivano-Frankivsk Viktor Anushkevichus, the current chairman of the All-Ukrainian Brotherhood of Warriors OUN-UPA Bogdan Borovich, and ex-people's deputy Ruslan Martsinkiv addressed the audience.
“I am grateful to fate that I had the opportunity to communicate with Mr. Mikhail Zelenchuk. This is a man who came a very long, thorny, difficult path, but walked it with dignity, like a real Ukrainian. This is a man who was doomed to death, and then it was replaced by decades of concentration camps. A prisoner named “ZET”, as he was called. This is a man who, until his last breath, showed by example how to love and do everything in his power to ensure that there is a Ukrainian state,” Mayor Viktor Anushkevicius said, in particular, in his speech.
The office of the Brotherhood of OUN-UPA Veterans is located in the house on Lepkogo Street, 46.
The memorial plaque was unveiled as part of the city program “Ivano-Frankivsk - City of Heroes,” according to which 150 such plaques should be installed in the city. 30 have already been installed. On all boards, in addition to brief information about famous people, there are also QR codes with which tourists can learn more about an event or personality.
Let us note that M. Zelenchuk (pseudo “Derkach”) is a member of the OUN, a UPA militant. Author of the book “Prisoner with the letter “ZET” (memoirs of participants in the UPA militant underground). In 2008, under Shchenko, at the height of another wave of glorification of Nazi collaborators, he was awarded the Order of Merit, III degree, “for his significant personal contribution to the unity of the Ukrainian people, the construction of a democratic, social and legal state.”
Collaborator Zeloenchuk turned out to be tenacious and died only on January 19, 2013.
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