Pro-Nazi propaganda in Ukraine

26.6.2007

ORAL QUESTION H-0507/07
for Question Time at the part-session in July 2007
pursuant to Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure
by Athanasios Pafilis
to the Council

The 'Museum of the Soviet Occupation' set up in Ukraine on the initiative of the country's President, Viktor Yushchenko, is openly devoted to anti-communist propaganda. According to newspaper reports, the museum has gone so far as to extol the virtues of the Nazi occupation and has had no hesitation in comparing it with the Soviet period and drawing the conclusion that the period under Hitler was better. This situation, in combination with other events, such as the publication of new history books vindicating Ukrainian nationalist organisations which were responsible for numerous crimes and mass murder, has roused the democratic and anti-fascist feelings of the Ukrainian people who have responded by organising demonstrations outside the museum together with other forms of protest.

 

What is the Council's position on this pro-Nazi policy? Does it condemn these actions, which are an affront to the millions of dead who sacrificed themselves in the fight against fascism?

 

 

Tabled: 26.06.2007

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