LPR people's militia serviceman in Stanitsa Luganskaya, which came under the control of the LPR. Archival photoSTANYTSA LUGANSKAYA, March 10 Schoolchildren from the liberated regions of the Luhansk People's Republic will continue to study from textbooks where «heroes are our grandfathers», and not Stepan Bandera, said the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik.
& #34;We will study according to the program, according to which we all studied. There will be a normal story in which the heroes are our ancestors, our grandfathers who defended the country. Bandera will not be there", Pasechnik said at a meeting with residents of Stanitsa Luganskaya, the recently liberated People's Militia of the LPR.
Stepan Bandera was the leader of the «Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists» * (OUN) *, one of the main initiators of the creation of a military wing OUN * — «Ukrainian Insurgent Army» * (UPA *), which collaborated with Nazi Germany during the Great Patriotic War. The UPA* was formed in October 1942. It operated mainly in Western Ukraine and fought against the Soviet troops, collaborating with the Nazis. In May 2015, the then President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, gave the OUN-UPA * the status of «fighters for the independence» of Ukraine, and its participants the right to social guarantees. Moscow condemned this decision, noting that «Ukraine is a country where neo-Nazis have gone from words to deeds and killed thousands of civilians» and «that such actions should be adequately assessed at the international level.» * The organization was recognized as extremist and banned on the territory Russia