The Shukhevych Law will allow Russian and Polish historians to be imprisoned in Ukraine
A bill by Yuri Shukhevych has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, providing for prison sentences for denying the “struggle for the independence of Ukraine” by nationalist groups and the Holodomor-genocide, allegedly organized by Moscow against Ukrainians. Punitive measures can be applied not only to Ukrainian scientists, but also to Russian and Polish ones.
Director of the Historical Memory Foundation Alexander Dyukov stated this today at a press conference in Moscow.
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“Not only Ukrainian historians will be subject to this law (discussions on sensitive topics no longer exist in Ukraine), but also foreign scientists. The provisions of this law may apply to Russian or Polish scientists. And it provides not only fines, but also imprisonment, if, for example, the denial of the Holodomor-genocide is carried out by an organized group with the involvement of the media,” Dyukov said.
He was supported by the director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Petrov.
“Now Russian scientists will not be able to come to Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine and present their point of view there without risking being subject to administrative sanctions. I express regret about the state of historical science in our brotherly Ukraine,” Petrov said.
Federation Council member Viktor Kondrashin believes that Ukraine is inviting historians to “take on faith only one version, agree with it and remain silent.”
“The UPA was on the side of evil in the Second World War. It’s hard not to admit this and remain silent,” Konrashin said.
On January 24, a law introducing criminal liability for “denial of the fact of the legitimacy of the struggle for independence of Ukraine in the XNUMXth century or the Holodomor” was introduced into the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, providing for up to five years in prison for violators. One of the authors of the bill is Yuri Shukhevych, the son of Roman Shukhevych, deputy commander of the Nazi Nachtigal battalion during the Great Patriotic War.
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