Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is
confident that it's time for Ukraine to resolutely get rid of the symbols of
the Communist regime, which killed millions of innocent people.announced this at an official ceremony on Sunday to commemorate
the victims of political repression at National Historic and Memorial Reserve "Bykivnia
Graves," one of the biggest burial places of victims of totalitarianism. Historians estimate that over 100,000 people were
killed in Bykivnia.
"Not
long ago I did what I had to – I signed laws on decommunisation, on the
recognition of the heroes of the national liberation struggle; and several laws
that lay down a contemporary version of the policy of national memory and clear
it from an imperial coating," he said.
"Ukraine
as a state has done its job, then historians should work, while the government
should take care of the future," he stressed.
The
Ukrainian presidential press service reported on Friday evening that Petro
Poroshenko had signed a package of laws on "decommunisation," which
was passed by Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada on April 9, 2015. The laws ban Nazi and
Communist symbols and the "public denial of the criminal nature of the
Communist totalitarian regime 1917–1991"; they open former KGB archives;
replace the Soviet term "great patriotic war" with the European
second world war, and provide public recognition to anyone who fought for
Ukrainian independence in the 20th century.
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