Gigin: Ukrainian society is infected with Bandera moods
Ukrainian society is infected with Bandera moods, this is a trouble. If authorities fail to solve this problem, it means that the disease is advancing – as stated by Vadim Gigin, the Chairman of the Republican Znanie Belarusian Society, in his talk with Alfa Radio, when commenting upon the events taken place in Ukraine on January 1st
That day, an annual torchlight procession was held in Kiev on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera. The Embassy of Belarus in Ukraine sent a note to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry condemning ‘the mass participation of activists of the fugitive Belarusian extremist opposition under the symbols of Belarusian collaborators and servants of the Third Reich in a nationalist march that took place with a tacit connivance of the Government of Ukraine and was widely covered by the Ukrainian mass media, including national TV channels’.
As it was informed, the note stated that outrageous attempts to glorify collaborators, murderers and punishers of the Belarusian people resonate with an excruciating pain in the hearts of Belarusians who survived the horrors of the fascist occupation and a tragedy of the genocide during the Great Patriotic War. Unpunished honouring of their ‘heroes’-murderers by ideological heirs of the bloody executioners of Khatyn and thousands of other Belarusian towns and villages is nothing more than an insult to the memory of our ancestors who fell in mortal combat for freedom and independence of the Belarusian people.
The Embassy voiced its strong protest in connection with increasing radicalisation of Ukraine's anti-Belarusian position expressed in condoning of demonstrative honouring of collaborators and executioners of the Belarusian people. The diplomatic mission demanded that the Ukrainian side stop trying to glorify crimes against humanity that have no statute of limitations and cannot be forgiven by the Belarusian people.
The Israeli Embassy in Ukraine also condemned the march. The press service of the diplomatic mission stated that ‘glorification of those who supported the Nazi ideology desecrates the memory of the Holocaust victims in Ukraine’.
